"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has a 2.3% chance of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, according to a NASA update on Feb.
YR4 is currently being monitored by NASA and the European Space Agency, with the space rock potentially set to strike Earth ...
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...
That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely. According to NASA, the odds of a collision are just 2.3%. But that nearly ...
However, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3 percent chance of colliding with Earth in seven years' time, and its estimated width of ...
This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...