The odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 have increased to 1 in 43. Despite this, you still shouldn't worry about the potential impact of this asteroid. That's because experts ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

2024 YR4 is only the second asteroid whose impact risk has reached greater than a 1% chance. The other is asteroid 99942, better known as “Apophis” — named after the Egyptian god of chaos ...

While the identification has triggered international planetary defense measures, experts say that further observations of the asteroid might drop the impact probability down to zero.

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy ... in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting asteroid or comet ...

Using the IBS supercomputer Aleph, the researchers ran several dust impact scenarios for a Bennu-type asteroid collision with Earth. In response to dust injections of 100–400 million tons ...

The detection on December 27 came from one of a network of telescopes managed by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a NASA-funded project to provide warning of asteroids on ...

In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA, discovered the existence of an asteroid known as 2024 YR4.

Asteroid Impact on Moon Blasted Two Grand Canyons in 10 Minutes By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of ...