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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...
CBS News18d
Could an asteroid hit Earth in 2032? Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...
USA Today17d
Will an asteroid hit Earth? Likely not. NASA gives 'all clear' as odds fall to near zero
If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news cycle, it's time to catch up on your rest. The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in ...
New York Post25d
See images of the ‘city-killer’ asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth
A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied ...
CBS News21d
Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth fluctuate as Webb telescope is tasked with studying potential "city-killer"
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...
CNN18d
The riskiest asteroid on record now has near-zero chance of hitting Earth
That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid will safely zip by Earth in seven years, according to NASA. The agency also shared that the new ...
Singularity Hub1mon
Scientists Find ‘Mirror Life’ Building Blocks on Asteroid Bennu
A previous sample from 162173 Ryugu, a diamond-shaped asteroid, contained myriad organic compounds, including vitamin B3 and uracil, the additional nucleobase used in RNA. Like Ryugu, Bennu is a ...
Boston.com1mon
Here’s what an MIT scientist says about the asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The odds of a recently discovered asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 have slightly increased, but one local scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said there’s no need to worry.
ABC News24d
Chance of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade rises to 3.1%, NASA says
The chances has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, officials said. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...
The Washington Post23d
Odds of recently discovered asteroid hitting Earth drop nearly to zero
The recently discovered, much-hyped Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has almost zero chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to the latest astronomical observations. After the probability of impact peaked ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a possible collision course with Earth — what you need to know
SPACE (KXAN) — We’re seven years away from a possible asteroid impact on Earth. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking the Earth and is the size of Cinderella’s Castle at ...