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, ...

In 2022, NASA's DART mission ("Double Asteroid Redirection Test") successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos about 7 million miles away from Earth, shifting its orbit a tiny bit. Although ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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 asteroid, which was first reported in December 2024 and is large enough to destroy an entire city, was initially ...

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 ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...