The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon however, may not be in the clear.

Don't worry. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72% chance of missing Earth in 2032. If you've been worrying about reports of a possible asteroid impact in 2032, we have very good news. NASA has dropped ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --NASA said that new data cut the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1.5%. In a blog post on Wednesday, NASA said it expects the impact probability "to continue to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten media ... all near-Earth objects 140 meters or larger by 2020. Chodas says that they are at around 45% right now. NASA is planning as soon as 2027 to launch NEO ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers. The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named ...

The data "found there is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet for the next century," NASA said in a blog post on February 24. The space agency noted that "NASA has ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

FOR a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90m in diameter, it was ...