Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

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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-funded ...

An asteroid is coming close to Earth in the future — but officials urge the public not to panic. Just days after astronomers initially insisted that the likelihood of a direct hit of the planet ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly increased risk of affecting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of ...

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NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR now has a 2.3 percent chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032. That’s one percent ...

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...