At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth ... According to NASA's Sentry tool, which monitors asteroids that may impact Earth, the threat now sits at 0.00078%.

Johns Hopkins University astronomer Andrew Rivkin said the observations by Webb served as "invaluable" practice for other asteroids ... chance of hitting Earth by 2029. NASA’s Center for Near ...

as reported by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 2025 GH is part of a series of near-Earth approaches currently being closely monitored by scientists. Four other asteroids will be zipping ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures ... The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys are planned through ...

Unfortunately, other, much larger asteroids have the ... of a 10 story building. But Nasa's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies also updated the chance of YR4 hitting the Moon – on 22 ...

The asteroid that caused panic about potentially colliding with Earth is the size of a building, Nasa has found ... it could have a 3 per cent chance of hitting Earth. Additional observations ...

Shortly after its discovery, NASA designated it a potentially hazardous object, with a nearly 3% chance of hitting Earth ... and central main belt. Earth-crossing asteroids—those whose orbits ...

Following Webb’s observations, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies updated the asteroid’s chances of hitting the Moon on December 22, 2032, raising the probability from 1.7% in ...

For a time, it was the only object among more than 37,000 known large space rocks with any chance of hitting ... NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, which tracks objects like asteroid ...

On February 20, NASA removed 2024 YR4 from its naughty list after calculations showed that the asteroid had a near-zero chance of hitting Earth ... than most other asteroids of its same size ...