Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and would easily take out a major city, causing cataclysmic disaster that ...

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NASA reports that the asteroid has a 2.3% chance of striking Earth on Dec. 22, 2032—approximately a 1 in 43 chance, slightly lower than the odds of landing a single number in a game of craps.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimated a 1.9 percent chance of an impact with Earth in 2032.

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of hitting Earth in 2032 are now effectively zero. ... And while movies have speculated about such missions, no human agency has yet carried off such a feat.

Nathan Moore of the Sandia National Laboratories details a possible new method to stop a dangerous asteroid from hitting the earth: a burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion.

Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options.

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled within the last few weeks, just like something out of a sci-fi movie. The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an ...

The asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth on Friday the 13th in April of 2029. That chance depends on it being hit by another asteroid or some other object in space at just the right angle ...

An asteroid crashing into Earth may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but experts warn it’s a real threat—and we may ...