A US company successfully landed its spacecraft on the Moon on Sunday, making it only the second private lander to achieve ...

Scientists have ruled out any harm to Earth from the YR4 asteroid, which had an impact likelihood as high as 3 percent ...

NASA scientists previously estimated that the odds of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth could rise to 20 percent, ...

An asteroid, whichemerged the most threatening celestial body in forecasting history, no longer poses a significant threat to ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

Large telescopes around the world continue to track Asteroid 2024 YR4 before it fades out of view this spring and the odds of ...

The rock currently boasts around a two percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, putting it at the top of NASA’s ... The asteroid also has a 0.3% chance of hitting the moon as well.

Getty The possibility of a recently-discovered asteroid striking Earth has doubled within the past several weeks, according to NASA. Asteroid 2024 YR4, which is estimated to be about 130 to 300 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in ... On Feb. 7, NASA scientists increased the likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, nearly doubling the ...

Paul Chodas, manager for the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, or CNEOS, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ... in diameter and marked the last known large asteroid to hit our world.

NASA is tracking an ... said in a post on Bluesky that Asteroid 2024 YR4 is calculated to have an approximate 0.3 percent chance of hitting the moon instead of Earth. Updated animation of ...

according to NASA’s calculations, or more than twice the velocity of an Earth-orbiting satellite. It’s that screaming speed that causes even a relatively small asteroid to pack such a ...