A recently discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, sparked the first-ever global alert from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than ...

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The changes of an asteroid hitting the moon on Dec. 22, 2023 have increased. Learn what the experts say will happen if the ...

YR4 initially had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but NASA revised the probability to almost zero. However, ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in December 2024 and believed to have a 3% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, now has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, NASA wrote in an update Wednesday.

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out ... could offer a rare chance to observe a real collision and study how the Moon responds. Professor Mark Burchell ...

This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to avoid disaster. —If an asteroid really threatened the Earth ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...