The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth ...
There’s still a 1.7 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Chodas expects the odds of a moon strike will also fade. The world’s telescopes will continue to track the asteroid as it heads away from us, with the Webb Space Telescope zooming in next month to ...
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
YR4: everything to know about the potential "city killer" space rock that has a 2.3% chance of striking Earth on Dec. 22, ...
New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter ... When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability ...
It is not clear whether that will happen before the James Webb Space Telescope turns its powerful gaze to the asteroid next month. There is still an 0.8 percent chance that the asteroid will hit ...
A new asteroid that was discovered hurtling towards Earth in December has the highest odds of a collision to date, according to new data from NASA. New Scientist reported on Monday that asteroid ...
The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in ...
NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...