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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated ... Enter Deniz Burnham, who joined the NASA 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class.

If this space rock were to hit Earth, it would create a blast ... Hadfield said. In 2021, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which collided a spacecraft with ...

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. It's way too soon to fret ...