The chance of a football field-sized asteroid ... far as 50km from the impact site, scientists have said. Scientists had emphasised that even if the asteroid had been heading our way, Earth ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to avoid disaster. —If an asteroid really threatened the Earth ...

strike it and change the asteroid's path by up to 620 miles (1,000 km). This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation triggered a fervid series of observations of the object — possibly as ...

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 ... figure out when the next one might happen.

Earth is not in danger of being hit by an asteroid in the near future, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The proclamations from the two agencies came after an asteroid dubbed 2024 ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible ... to impact our planet for the next century," the agency added ...