In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...
NASA has selected SpaceX to launch its NEO Surveyor spacecraft, which will hunt for asteroids and comets that could pose a ...
The good news is that if Earth is incredibly unlucky and the asteroid does hit on Dec. 22, 2032, it will not destroy the ...
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
NASA announced Wednesday that the odds of the up to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth dropped from record highs. See where ...
NASA said Wednesday that new data collected overnight cut the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1.5%. The ...
Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...
As dark moonless skies make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 possible, researchers are refining its orbit — and its ...
NASA and other space agencies are attempting to come up with a way to destroy a massive asteroid unlikely to strike Earth.
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...
The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...