NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.
NASA “significantly lowered” the risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth, saying the chances are now almost zero. Just last ...
No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. There is now a .004 percent chance it will impact Earth. Here’s NASA’s ...
The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of colliding with Earth in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, thanks to new observations of the space rock.
Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 have again risen, though the risk remains tiny, astronomers say. Here's what to ...
But less than 17 hours later, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) issued an editorial notice: It was deleting 2018 CN41 from its records because, it turned out, the object was not an asteroid. It was a car.
NASA announced Wednesday that the odds of the up to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth dropped from record highs. See where ...
Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which once had the highest recorded impact probability for its size.
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) seemingly mistook billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. TSLA Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to the fascination of the billionaire.
Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...
A large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth within the next decade that there's a chance it could strike the planet ... Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center, which determined it had ...
The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced the discovery of dwarf planet 2015, the world with an extremely distant aphelion ...