William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

While YR4's impact odds have unseated Apophis, the larger asteroid still briefly hit a higher rating of 4 on the Torino Scale. A radar observation campaign in March 2021 during a distant flyby ...

But scientists revised that assessment after a precise analysis of the asteroid’s orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar forecasting trends with 2024 YR4, which currently sits at a ...

Related: What happened when the dinosaur-killing asteroid slammed into Earth? In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in ... to categorize and rate the threat of near-Earth objects, USA Today reported. Ratings of 1 on the Torino scale are fairly common among newly ...

Even if asteroid mining isn’t possible today, or done by AstroForge, it may become reality for one entity or another down the road. “To me, it is about pushing humans forward,” he said.

NASA announced Monday that the asteroid, named 2024 YR 4, no longer poses a “significant threat” to Earth in 2032 or beyond. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

An artist's concept of the the Lucy spacecraft flying past the Trojan asteroids Patroclus and Menoetius. Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth decreased from 3.1% to 1.5% on Wednesday. NASA has reported a slight chance of 2024 YR4 colliding with the moon. The chances of an asteroid ...