It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... after a precise analysis of the asteroid’s orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar ...

Update: The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 ... still briefly hit a higher rating of 4 on the Torino Scale. A radar observation campaign in March 2021 during a distant flyby ...

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

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068. Should we worry about ...

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.

NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now has a 0.28 per cent chance of collision in 2032, or about 1 in 357. This is ...

As additional observations came in, the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth went up ... observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when ...

However, another update shared by NASA on Wednesday showed that 2024 YR4 has a 1.5% chance of colliding with Earth in December ... analysis of the asteroid’s orbit in 2021.

On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... after a precise analysis of the asteroid's orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar ...