YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

An asteroid ... will miss Earth, the good news, experts stress, is that we have plenty of time to prepare if something were to change. Rivkin led the investigation for NASA's 2022 DART mission ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

If space rock were to hit Earth, the rippling blast would ... repellant of its own called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. In September 2022, the space agency used a spacecraft to alter ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks can still be threatening, as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s rating of 3 on the Torino Scale is the second-highest an asteroid has ever reached after the Apophis briefly hit a rating of 4. The risk of Apophis impacting Earth during its ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

An asteroid ... will miss Earth, the good news, experts stress, is that we have plenty of time to prepare if something were to change. Rivkin led the investigation for NASA's 2022 DART mission ...