A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth.
12 hours ago · What we know 2024 YR4 and its chances of hitting Earth. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have …
5 hours ago · A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly perilous object: It’s a 130 to 300-foot long rock that currently stands a 1 in 53 chance of impacting somewhere on Earth on ...
Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
3 days ago · Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 The odds are about 1% that the football ... By comparison, the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia on Feb. 15, 2013, was estimated ...
Newly discovered asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in …
5 days ago · An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.
World's Space Agencies Say Asteroid Has 1.3% Chance of Hitting Earth …
6 days ago · The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance it will hit our planet in the next eight years.. Asteroid 2024 YR4, as it's been designated, was flagged by the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) for its potential to impact Earth on 22 December 2032.
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032
3 days ago · 2024 YR4 is a large asteroid (though its mass range offers a lot of wiggle room), but an impact with Earth would not cause a global cataclysm similar to that induced by the 6-mile-wide (10 km ...
UH telescope discovers historic asteroid that may strike the Earth …
3 days ago · Reading time: 2 minutes Illustration of a small asteroid moving past Earth (image credit: Space.com) A University of Hawaiʻi-operated telescope has discovered a fairly large asteroid that may impact the Earth.The historic asteroid, 2024 YR4, was first detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in December 2024 as it flew past the Earth.
Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth
Jan 29, 2025 · A 130-foot asteroid is comparable to the Tunguska impactor, a meteor that exploded over a remote patch of Siberia in 1908 and decimated an 800-square-mile forest (that’s over twice the size of ...
Newfound Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2032, Scientists Say
6 days ago · YR4, it seemed, had a 1.3 percent chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032. ... when a suspected asteroid or comet burst over Russia and flattened 2,150 square kilometers of remote Siberian ...
Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Jan 29, 2025 · A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday the chance of impact is slightly more than 1%. ... Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032. This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from ...