Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s ...

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 ...

"But it's not very common that it happens." The position and predicted orbit of asteroid 2024 YR4 (white dot and oval) as of Jan. 31, 2025. Credit: NASA Here are today's general risks from ...

We’re looking for objects that seem to move against the background of the more distant ... You can’t do something like paint one side of the asteroid white and cause its reflectivity to ...

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 ...

A 2% chance of an asteroid strike is "uncommon," officials say. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

The race to understand more about the asteroid that − as of now − has a 1.8% chance of colliding with the Earth in December 2032 is getting a boost from a heavy hitter in celestial observation ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in December 2024. Here's NASA's estimate of the chance of the asteroid hitting Earth. The asteroid is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet wide. An asteroid ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.New ...

In late December of 2024, um, *** NASA funded near Earth asteroid survey, the one that, you know, I operate called Atlas, uh, discovered an asteroid that as it came by the Earth, uh, this time ...