In the unlikely scenario that the large asteroid does hit Earth, such an event won't necessarily ... during its unprecedented DART mission in 2022. But this was only a test on the non-threatening ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all ...

DART was first used in 2022 to alter the course of an asteroid ... he said that there is "at least 98 percent chance that the asteroid won't hit the Earth. "The other thing to bear in mind ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth today at a speed of around 19,193 miles per hour.

NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when astronomers found it had a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Further observations showed that the chances of ...

After giving us quite the scare (or something to look forward to), NASA removed 2024 YR4 from its naughty list when calculations showed that the asteroid had a near-zero chance of hitting Earth.

NASA and international scientists closely tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a rare 3 percent collision probability with Earth. Although the threat has now diminished, the incident ...

An asteroid that experts feared could hit Earth is no longer on track for the planet – but it still has a slim chance of striking the moon, new research says. The 2024 YR4 asteroid is nearly the ...

According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 3.1 percent chance of colliding with our planet on December 22, 2032. Worse yet, the space agency suggests the ...

Recent observations have ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact, but the asteroid's chances of hitting the moon have almost doubled, according to a report by Fox News. What Happened ...

For a few weeks, the world watched in horror as the probability of a "city killer" asteroid called YR4 hitting Earth crept up and up. At the height of the anxiety, Nasa reportedly feared the ...

If it had hit the Earth, the energy released at its impact would have ... of an asteroid can be changed by ramming it with a spacecraft. In September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...