NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Don't worry. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72% chance of missing Earth in 2032. If you've been worrying about reports of a possible asteroid impact in 2032, we have very good news. NASA has dropped ...

The average impact velocity for an asteroid on Earth is a whopping 17 ... and they don't really help us figure out when the next one might happen. As the story around asteroid 2024 YR4 shows ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability decreases as per new ... dedicated devices like the James Webb Space Telescope (launched next March), computation should be more accurate.

PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...

"Megaripples" in the seafloor that were created in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact extend much farther ... one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 feet (600 m), were ...

“When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a very small ... is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet for the next century. The latest observations have further ...

However, just the next day, new observations made with ESO's VLT cut the impact risk in half. This rise and fall of the asteroid's impact probability follows an expected and understood pattern.