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This article originally appeared on Undark. What are the odds of an asteroid of dangerous dimensions striking the planet? If you wait long enough, it’s 100 percent. And they don’t even have to ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 traced to lunar highlands; Apollo 14 rocks match Research reveals natural origin; trajectory rules out space debris Insights boost detection of near-Earth objects with lunar origins ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has around a 1-in-77 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 – but there’s no need to panic.

Should any asteroids ever do pose a serious threat to Earth, the world's space agencies have for years begun to build a planetary defense against dangerous space rocks. "We aren’t just waiting ...

Another day another space rock threatening to end our existence. A building-sized asteroid heading towards Earth has triggered a planetary defence response for the first time ever. This newly spotted ...

Dr. Kelly Fast, acting planetary defense officer for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, third from the right, talks about the steps her department will take if an asteroid is threatening to ...

Even so, the object — called asteroid 2024 YR4 — is Earth's biggest known impact threat in 20 years and it's already triggered international planetary-defense planning. As of Thursday morning, the ...