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 ...
An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...
Astronomers say a newly discovered 196-foot asteroid has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according reporting from Space.com. The near-earth object was discovered in 2024 and has stirred ...
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...
The odds of an asteroid crashing into Earth in 2032 keep changing, and not in a good way. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 1-in-45 chance of impacting our planet in seven years. The odds are not a huge ...
An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...
A newly-discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher chance of hitting Earth than previously thought, according to scientists. The space rock - named 2024 YR4 - has a 2.2% chance of crashing into ...
The risk assessment has fluctuated since the asteroid’s discovery late last year, when it was rated at a 1.2% probability of hitting our planet. The impact probability is expected to keep ...
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But scientists now say that there is a very real chance Earth will be hit by a 'city killer' asteroid on December 2, 2032. With an estimated diameter of up to 300 feet (90 metres), the asteroid ...
Thankfully the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are extremely low but NASA is still keeping an eye ...