Asteroid Impact Threat Estimates Improved for the Earth and the Moon Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

Astronomers from NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile used automated warning systems to learn that this object has about a 1.2% probability of a collision.

All clear: NASA analysis drops asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability to 0.004%, meaning it is expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032. NASA’s #PlanetaryDefense team will continue to monitor ...

The huge "city-killer" asteroid scientists feared would hit Earth may now smash into the Moon instead, according to experts. The 100-metre wide rock, named 2024 YR4, once had a 3.1 per cent ...

This may have been due to changes in vegetation, not predators. Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift from ...

While the asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth, new calculations suggest a small but notable chance of a lunar impact, according to observations from the James Webb Space ...

Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive ...

Based on a 20-kilometer grid, the maps produced in the study show how anemia prevalence evolved between 2010 and 2020—highlighting substantial regional disparities within and between countries.

"The impact on Germany is likely to be limited for the time being," said Veronika Grimm, a professor at the University of Technology in Nuremberg. "Many, but not all, car manufacturers now have ...