YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

The chances of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth just a few days before Christmas 2032 are increasing — but don't panic (or celebrate) just yet. Why it matters: The near-Earth asteroid, ...

An asteroid ... will miss Earth, the good news, experts stress, is that we have plenty of time to prepare if something were to change. Rivkin led the investigation for NASA's 2022 DART mission ...

If such an asteroid were to hit the centre ... the projected Earth impact is a mere seven years away, the window for sending a spacecraft to try and divert it away from our planet, as successfully ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

If space rock were to hit Earth, the rippling blast would ... repellant of its own called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. In September 2022, the space agency used a spacecraft to alter ...

If an impact were likely, space agencies could attempt deflection missions, such as NASA’s successful DART mission in 2022 ... What would happen if Earth was hit by an asteroid?

An asteroid ... will miss Earth, the good news, experts stress, is that we have plenty of time to prepare if something were to change. Rivkin led the investigation for NASA's 2022 DART mission ...