YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ... that could potentially threaten Earth. "We can see orders of magnitude fainter than you would be able to with your naked eye ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

: An asteroid, estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, has a chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. According to NASA, asteroid 2024 YR4 has a low probability of hitting Earth ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ... that could potentially threaten Earth. "We can see orders of magnitude fainter than you would be able to with your naked eye ...

Update: The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have fallen to 1.5%, NASA announced Wednesday. Read the latest. The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will ...

Still, among the more-than 37,000 known large space rocks, it's the only one right now with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon. Initial projections gave the asteroid little more than a 1% ...

It is known as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning its orbit presents ... Earth could be as powerful as a 75 megaton nuclear blast, larger than the Tsar Bomb, which was detonated in the Soviet Union ...