All of that was in the background as I was trying to make a decision. I knew that the engineering team leaned toward an overabundance of caution: They didn’t want the asteroid’s rugged surface to ...

The asteroid, Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was first spotted by telescopes on Dec. 27, now has a 0.004 percent chance of hitting the planet and is “expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032,” NASA ...

The probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in the near future has leapt from having a near-zero chance of occurring to having roughly a 3 percent chance.. While that may not seem like a ...

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid with a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. The asteroid is estimated to be about 40-90 meters wide, big enough to cause local devastation but not ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path. The risk will likely ...

NASA estimates that there have been more than 19,000 NEO asteroids discovered as of 2019. An average of 30 new discoveries are added each week. ... An asteroid is a small, ...

Measurements of the asteroid’s position — from 2015 to 2024 — confirmed its Trojan nature. Named 2019 UO 14 , the asteroid is only about 13 kilometers across, the same size as Deimos, the ...

China first announced its plans to launch an asteroid deflection mission in late 2022, targeting asteroid 2019 VL5 with a pair of spacecraft launching in 2025. According to the new paper, ...

In September 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos. It may now be "healing." In September 2022, ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? There are more than a million objects in the Solar System’s asteroid belt. NASA ...

The 173-mile-wide asteroid is known as 16 Psyche and is thought to be made up of gold, iron, and nickel. The ore on the asteroid has been estimated to be worth about $10 quintillion.

Like the previous target, 2019 VL5 is an Aten-class asteroid, a group of objects that cross the orbit of Earth but have an orbital period less than one year. 2020 PN1 is now a backup target, with ...