The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

As of January 29, 2025, the asteroid has an almost 99 percent chance of safely passing Earth on December 22, 2032, but a possible impact cannot yet be entirely ruled out. While we can’t say for ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only ... “These processes probably occurred much earlier and were much more widespread than we had thought before.” NASA’s Daniel Glavin said ...

(AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not ... probably occurred much earlier and were much more widespread than we had thought before.” NASA’s Daniel Glavin said one of the biggest ...