YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...
In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...
The likelihood has increased to 2.1%. MORE: There's a small chance an asteroid could hit Earth within the next decade, says NASA The overall probability may be low, but a 2% chance of an asteroid ...
The asteroid doesn’t pose an existential risk but it could cause severe damage Asteroid 2024 YR4 does not pose an existential risk to civilization — it’s not nearly ... Earth, if it did hit ...
There's also a slight chance the asteroid could hit the moon ... that injured nearly 1,500 people. How would scientists know that an asteroid is about to collide with Earth?
NASA is closely monitoring an asteroid that may hit Earth in 2032. The space agency is using the James Webb Space Telescope ...
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now ... Betts said, "The odds are very good that not only will this not hit Earth, but at some point in the next months to few years, that ...
Where will the asteroid hit, if it does hit Earth? Officials with the International ... on subsequent measurements of the asteroid, the nearly head-on collision shortened the time it took for ...
NASA said last week that there is currently a 2.3% (or 1 in 43) chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While still tiny, that probability nearly doubled from ...