New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

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

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4 ...

Scientists are hoping to rule out any chance of the asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 before it disappears from view. In September 2022, NASA successfully crashed a vending machine-sized spacecraft ...

Andrews cautioned that a similar strategy might not be effective in this case, citing NASA's 2022 DART mission, which successfully changed the orbit of a smaller asteroid. “If we try to deflect ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid big enough to destroy a whole city. As experts learn more about asteroid 2024 YR4's trajectory, they've confirmed that the odds of impact ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

Nasa has already successfully tested technologies to deflect asteroids, most notably during its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, which redirected an asteroid twice the size ...

successfully demonstrated the ability to alter an asteroid’s trajectory in 2022 by crashing a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the asteroid Didymos. If Bennu were ever confirmed ...