The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

MetaBallStudios / SWNS This handout picture provided by NASA on January 31, 2025 shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the ... chance of striking our natural satellite, marking a substantial ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

The asteroid, Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was first spotted by telescopes on Dec. 27, now has a 0.004 percent chance of hitting the planet and is “expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032,” NASA ...

But fear not: NASA announced on Monday that it posed a threat no longer — the odds that the asteroid would smash into our planet have dropped to nearly zero. “I knew this was likely to go away ...

Called 2024 YR4, the near-Earth asteroid initially carried a 1% chance of hitting land when NASA and the European ... which will be closely observed by the James Webb Space Telescope before ...

An artist's concept of the the Lucy spacecraft flying past the Trojan asteroids Patroclus and Menoetius. Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez ...

As the asteroid was observed further, its odds had briefly risen to a record high of 3.1%. However, they have now dropped to near zero. NASA announced Monday that the asteroid, named 2024 YR 4 ...

NASA has given a major update on the 'city-killing' asteroid which has been hurtling towards Earth – and it finally makes for pleasant reading. After months of increasing odds, the space ...

NASA scientists previously estimated that the odds of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 could rise to 20 percent, but the agency never told the public. A statistical analysis ...

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid ... and was found to be big enough to destroy a city. As the asteroid was observed further, its odds had briefly risen to a record high of 3.1%.