YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an ...

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. There is now a .004 percent chance it will impact Earth. Here’s NASA’s explanation of why it’s no longer considered a threat (for at least the ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight ... like the rock that killed the dinosaurs," Harwood said. "It wouldn't affect ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

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 ...