An object, officially called 2024 PT5, which was first spotted in August 2023, then observed as a near-Earth ... to be a ...

The probe was headed toward a small asteroid to scan it for valuable ... The spacecraft is designed to travel to the company’s target near-Earth asteroid and dock with the body in space.

Earlier this year, a roughly 200-foot near-Earth asteroid ... there's still a small 1.7 percent chance 2024 YR4 could impact the Moon on December 22, 2032, which could result in a massive ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth ... away from the Earth," NASA said. However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 ...

The moon, however, may not be in the clear. When first discovered in December, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a small but notable ... based observatories. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor will be a space ...

Nov. 1, 2023 — The remnants of an ancient planet that collided with Earth to form the Moon ... Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the near-Earth ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth ... there is still a small probability that the 2032 asteroid could impact the moon, with the odds standing at around ...

Scientists at NASA and around the world have been closely following a near ... asteroid." And if it doesn't impact the Earth, there's a minuscule chance of 0.3 percent or so that it could hit the ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - New observations of a small ... asteroid's future trajectory. The impact probability has been lowered to 0.001%, according to the European Space Agency's Near-Earth ...