CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the ...
YR4 is circling Earth and NASA predicts it could strike the planet in 2032. Here's what to know about the asteroid headed ...
YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.
We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...
Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.
An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
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Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...
An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.