YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to ...

In 2023 scientists detected an asteroid called 33 Polyhymnia which could ... US was formed by a meteorite about 50m across that hit 50,000 years ago Now that the chances are higher that YR4 ...

What's significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2023. Since its discovery ... The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide ...

Having launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy encountered the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, Selam, in November of 2023. Like Donaldjohanson ... no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still ...

In the latest impact risk assessments from NASA, the agency predicted that there was a 1 in 38 chance, or 2.6 percent, that the YR4 asteroid would hit the Earth. Last week, The European Space ...

In late December 2023, an asteroid named 2024 YR4 was ... The power of a potential collision If the asteroid 2024 YR4 were to hit Earth, the impact could be disastrous. Even though it’s not ...

In 2023 scientists detected an asteroid called 33 Polyhymnia which could ... Now that the chances are higher that YR4 will hit the Moon, some scientists are getting excited about that.