It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

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An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth ... according to the European Space Agency. The space rock is formally named 2024 YR4. Scientists say it currently carries a 2% risk of making ...

Skiers and riders converged in Boulder over the weekend to compete in the fourth annual Skijoring the Big Rock event in Boulder. The event, hosted by the Boulder Valley Skijoring Association ...

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this rock hits Earth, and those odds will change (and probably go down ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ... as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that exploded over Russia and blew out people's windows in 2013 proved.

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, the European Space Agency and NASA have found. But that also means the space rock has a nearly 99% chance ...

China has started assembling a planetary defence team to counter the threat of near-Earth asteroids following the discovery of a large asteroid that could strike our planet in seven years.

asteroid 2024 YR4 in data from the Catalina Sky Survey, meaning he was able to find images of the space rock in archival data that was gathered prior to its official discovery. Space.com reached ...

The asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide. The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for the Center ...

But sometimes a space rock gets flagged as a potential threat because there is a slim chance that it may collide with Earth. A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ...