The Kirkwood gaps are explained by asteroids similarly interacting with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt, even while their ...

is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the European Space Agency’s risk assessment sits at ...

The asteroid which scientists originally said had a small chance of hitting Earth is now showing a slightly higher chance of crashing into the moon. Based on the latest observations by the Webb ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several ... never had more than a 3% chance of hitting us. NASA Will Test Planet Defense ...

Scientists at NASA and around the world have been closely following a near-Earth asteroid, the size of a ... had a 1.3 percent chance of hitting the Earth — and now, that probability has risen ...

While the chance of a “city-killer” asteroid striking Earth in about eight years time has been significantly ruled out, the odds of it hitting the moon has increased. NASA said the asteroid’s chance ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the ...

and the chances of 2024 YR4 hitting our planet will become zero. The current trajectory of 2024 YR4 is almost a straight line away from Earth, and astronomers will continue to collect observational ...

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the next decade. The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has a 2.3% chance of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032 ...

The space rock does not remotely pose an existential threat to life on Earth. It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to ...