Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

Scientists at NASA and around the world have been closely following a near-Earth asteroid ... YR4 would hit the Moon's surface at full speed since it doesn't have an atmosphere, exploding with ...

The odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 now stand at 1-in-32, or a 3.1 percent chance of collision, according to the latest data from NASA. On February 7, NASA upped the likelihood of the ...

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

The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that once had ... that the probability that 2024 YR4 would hit the Earth would probably go up and then at some ...

Updated orbit predictions show the chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in seven years has dropped to practically zero, according to NASA. The near-earth object was discovered in 2024 and ...

“The probability of an asteroid hitting Earth is low, but the consequences ... witnessed an asteroid exploding in the atmosphere. If an asteroid landed on the ocean, the destruction wouldn ...

Since December, Moskovitz had the Lowell Discovery Telescope trained on the 2024 YR4 asteroid. Scientists at one point projected it had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. 2024 YR4 is now ...

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4 ... utilize to assess the threats posed by near-Earth objects on a scale of 0 (no threat) to 10 (will definitely hit Earth and destroy all life).