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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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair ...

But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space observers mistook it for an asteroid ... companies are not always transparent about exactly where the objects ...

A newly discovered asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — has slightly more than 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials said last week. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...