Nasa has also reported a very small chance that 2024 YR4 could collide with the Moon instead. This would pose no threat to people on Earth ... a nuclear weapon near the asteroid to deflect ...

Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid ... the Earth-Moon gravity field, to actually get into this kind of orbit," Malhotra said. "It can't be too small, and it can't be ...

Earth is not in danger of being hit by an asteroid in the near future ... NASA cautioned, however, that there is a small chance the asteroid could hit the moon in 2032. The probability, according ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field ... Earth. "The majority of near-Earth objects have orbits that don't bring them very close to Earth, and therefore pose no risk of impact, but a ...

"An object the size of YR4 passes harmlessly through the Earth-Moon neighborhood as frequently as a few times per year," Richard Binzel, one of the world's leading asteroid experts and a professor ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid ... field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, according to the space agency's latest calculations. The Center for Near ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the ... and 2024 YR4 is actually slated to make a pass near earth in 2028 at about 20 times the Earth-Moon distance, according to NASA, so there’s no chance ...

A near-Earth asteroid ... YR4 will impact Earth. The asteroid is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet across. Astronomers are closely watching an asteroid that has a small probability of ...