In February 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines. NASA said it had a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 the highest ever ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

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

To save ourselves from a killer asteroid ... 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 meters), which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or “vaporize the L.A.

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory ... the gaps in a very simple way: by hitting an inner planet like Mars, Venus or Earth. Scientists also found that these ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

An asteroid which is considered as PHA has the potential to be a danger to Earth in the future as any shift in its trajectory due to gravitational pull of other planets or crash with space debris can ...

But it's classified as an Apollo-type asteroid, meaning its orbit regularly intersects that of Earth, thus creating the potential for an impact. When 2024 YR4 was first observed, astronomers ...

The threat to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid has faded. Others could be headed our way.