YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Discovered in December 2024, Asteroid 2024 YRY triggered global planetary defence procedures after calculations found it had a 1.3% chance of hitting earth on December 22, 2032.

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

The probability of a "city-killer" asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 just increased to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, according to NASA, and a chilling animation depicting the apocalyptic impact that the asteroid ...

A NASA asteroid detection system discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, and found it has an over one percent chance of hitting Earth. Astronomers are watching closely.

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid with a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. The asteroid is estimated to be about 40-90 meters wide, big enough to cause local devastation but not ...

Asteroid Apophis has the tiniest chance of hitting earth in 2029 – on a Friday the 13th While the chances of an impact are slightly higher than we thought, the odds are still about one-in-2 ...

Apophis initially had a small chance to hit Earth on Sept. 13, 2024, but did not. How big is asteroid 2024 YR4? The asteroid is between 130 and 300 feet long, USA TODAY reported.

A big asteroid is coming close to Earth. Be excited, not afraid. To be clear, the asteroid is not going to hit Earth — not in our lifetime nor our children’s lifetimes, anyway.

Apophis initially had a small chance to hit Earth on Sept. 13, 2024, but did not. While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from ...

While the asteroid did, in fact, hit Earth and burn up in the atmosphere, it was never large enough to cause any damage, thankfully. Of course, that isn’t always the case.

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...