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“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

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An asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been identified - and it’s heading back toward Earth with a 3.1% chance of impact by December 22, 2032. That might sound small, but it’s 1 in 32 odds - worse than ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the ...

June 30 is Asteroid Day, which honors the Tunguska event in Russia 117 years ago and teaches about asteroids and their ...