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 ...
At that time, NASA said that “no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%.” The agency is monitoring the asteroid’s orbit and said that the object’s “impact hazard ...
Ian joined Newsweek in 2023 from the Daily Express U.S. and ... The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged a three-mile-long trough in the ground and buckled local rocks has been revealed ...
emphasized that understanding the asteroid’s trajectory remained crucial. A 1-in-77 chance of impact 2024 YR4 was first detected on Dec. 27, 2023, by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile.