Credit: ATLAS/NASA/Cover Images This footage shows the asteroid that could cause havoc by striking the Earth in 2032.

NASA has been revising the odds of an asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032, with recent estimates increasing the chance to 3.1 ...

The risk that the asteroid 2024 YR4 hits Earth has risen to the highest level scientists have ever recorded - now computers ...

While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

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The impact of a Bennu-sized object — a medium-sized asteroid ... its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away. It might come even closer in the ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago ... have relevance for lunar exploration ...

The images in the ... that 2024 YR4 will hit Earth on its next orbit in 2028 — but it might bring it close enough for further observations. “New observations may result in reassignment of this ...

(KTLA) – A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA ...