The asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth - but new calculations suggest a notable chance of a lunar impact.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Researchers Probe How a Piece of the Moon Became a Near-Earth Asteroid Oct. 23, 2023 — Two years after the striking discovery that a near-Earth asteroid could be a chunk of the moon, another ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

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NASA is monitoring a large asteroid, 2014 TN17, which will pass Earth at a safe distance of about 3 million miles. The asteroid, larger than Egypt's Great Pyramid, poses no risk of impact. Classified ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon ... strike our planet — but not until December 2032. Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos ... rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032. Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found ...

And that’s because, while stopping an asteroid striking Earth is already difficult, doing it in under eight years could have easily pushed our technological capabilities to their outermost limits.