An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth in about eight ... the inner planets before shooting past Mars and out toward Jupiter.

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." It might not look like much in this image, but this is the ...

22, 2032. That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely—but the risk is on the rise. According to NASA’s Center ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter ... worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068.

Astronomers around the world have trained their telescopes toward an asteroid they believe has a minimal, but not insignificant, chance of hitting Earth in just under 8 years. Though space ...

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What to know about 2024 YR4:Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth. What is asteroid 2024 YR4 and why are scientists paying attention to it?

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively ... with more of a focus on getting humans to Mars than defending Earth). But if the cuts at ...