NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

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 ...

The unmanned DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission began in November 2021. During that period, NASA launched a probe into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The probe collided with the ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

NASA describes the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," but it poses no threat to Earth Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined PEOPLE in 2021 ...

so a larger telescope like Webb can help narrow down the asteroid's true trajectory. The Webb telescope, launched in 2021 as an international partnership of NASA, the ESA and the Canadian Space ...

According to NASA’s Asteroid Watch, 2015 DR215 also passed us by in March of 2021. Seeing close approach asteroids pass us by safely is great and all, but what happens when the events of Don’t ...

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 ...

Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

The odds will change as the asteroid approaches Earth Scientists constantly updating predictions with new data Even if it hits Earth, the asteroid would not end civilization The odds will change ...

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 ...