NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La ...

Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

Writing in Science Advances, researchers used computer models to assess the potential impacts of a medium-size asteroid collision, noting that there are about 4,900 known medium-size asteroids ...

Advertisement "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average ever few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the ESA said in a news release on Jan. 29. "As a result ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

NASA and ESA are monitoring the situation closely. The asteroid's possible impact could release energy 500 times stronger than an atomic bomb. Updated projections are expected soon to determine ...

Rainfall levels could drop by 15%, further exacerbating environmental instability. Asteroid impacts have played a crucial role in shaping Earth's history, and scientists believe that past ...

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

(AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.

When was the last time an asteroid had similar odds of hitting Earth? This is only the second time that impact prediction systems have rated any asteroid with an impact probability of more than 1%.