It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth in 2032. The chances of an impact remain ...
No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.
Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
The near-earth object first discovered in 2024 has stirred up conversation on social media because of the potential for an ...
Was 2020’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ accurate? Find out what NASA revealed about an asteroid that will approach Earth in 2032.
YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.