Chances of a big asteroid strike on Earth just doubled. Here’s why you shouldn’t be too worried.
A large asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency. That estimate, made Friday, works out to approximately a one-in-45 chance of direct impact, which also means a 44-in-45 chance of a miss.
The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...
Scientists from South Korea have conducted simulations of a potential impact of asteroid Bennu on Earth in the year 2182. As ...
ESA/FILE via CNN Newsource "Basically, the more observations we get, the more we can localise and confirm the asteroid's trajectory, which is most likely to turn out to be a flyby, and not an ...
NASA tracks asteroid 2025 CZ1 as it makes a close flyby to Earth. Learn about asteroid safety and planetary defense ...
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