NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

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Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in December 2024. Here's NASA's estimate of the chance of the asteroid hitting Earth. The asteroid is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet wide.

Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options.

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of hitting Earth in 2032 are now effectively zero. ... And while movies have speculated about such missions, no human agency has yet carried off such a feat.

Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimated a 1.9 percent chance of an impact with Earth in 2032.

Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth in 2029, but only if a very unlikely series of events plays out.

Nathan Moore of the Sandia National Laboratories details a possible new method to stop a dangerous asteroid from hitting the earth: a burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion.

The asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth on Friday the 13th in April of 2029. That chance depends on it being hit by another asteroid or some other object in space at just the right angle ...