This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a small possibility of Earth impact, but refined ...

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On April 11, 2025, a large asteroid named 2023 KU, approximately 113 meters wide, will safely pass Earth at a distance of over one million kilometers. While posing no immediate threat, this close ...

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space ...

NASA's latest asteroid warning is about a space rock named 2023 KU that is hurtling towards Earth at a speed of 64,000 kilometres per hour. The 370-foot asteroid belongs to the Apollo group of ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...

Dinosaurs were thriving before the asteroid hit Fossil and Climate data show no signs of decline Catastrophic impact caused abrupt mass extinction ...

An asteroid that earlier sparked fear of hitting Earth may now be on a different path heading towards the Moon. According to scientists, there's a small chance, around 2 per cent, that this asteroid ...

Credit: Davide Bonadonna Scientists have debated a tantalizing question for decades: Were dinosaurs already on the decline before the catastrophic asteroid impact 66 million years ago? At first glance ...

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said on Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...