"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Space agencies monitoring the Y24 asteroid said there was a 2.6-percent chance of impact with Earth, up from 2.2 percent a ...

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s rating of 3 on the Torino Scale is the second-highest an asteroid has ever reached after the Apophis briefly hit a rating ... to Earth, NASA had set out to test a method ...

There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit ... NASA successfully did in 2022 to the 160m-wide asteroid Dimorphos. It was called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

The one silver lining is that Dr. Rankin’s forecast is slightly less dire than current estimates, which assert that YR4 has a 2.3 per cent chance of hitting our planet, putting it at the top of NASA’s ...

NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind ...

NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency’s Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind ...