The scare caused by 2024 YR4 has reminded us of how vulnerable humanity is to asteroids. A threat that the European Space Agency's Planetary Defense Office, led by Richard Moissl, is addressing: "The ...
Last year on the day of Christmas, a football sized asteroid passed close to the earth. It was around double the distance ...
Latest observations slash collision probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 from 2.8% to 0.16%, but no further updates are possible until 2028.
Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...
As predicted, we are most likely completely safe from this small asteroid, but now there's a greater chance of it striking the Moon in 2032!
New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...
Torres: 3.1 percent is not high but it is the highest risk level of a space rock crashing into us, ever. Except for the one ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...
Early this month, the chances had risen to 1.9 percent. A few days later, they were 2.3 percent. Those were the happy, carefree times.
NASA scientists have once again upgraded the odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 striking our planet in 2032 to over double the ...