The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Breathe easy, Earthlings! That big scary asteroid that had some people worried? Turns out, it will just pass by with no plans to crash our planet’s party. NASA has given ...
PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...
A massive asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), will pass near Earth at a distance of approximately 3.7 million kilometers on March 5, 2025. Traveling at 28,300 kilometers per hour, it poses no immediate ...
Although the asteroid will pass Earth from a safe distance, NASA has classified it as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid due to its size and trajectory. As per the NASA researchers, who are keeping ...
Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...
According to NASA, there is a 99.9983 per cent chance that the asteroid will pass Earth safely in seven years, which is equivalent to a 1 in 59,000 risk of collision. Although the new data ...
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 ...
ESA has since lowered the odds to 0.001 percent. NASA has it down to 0.0017 percent — meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for the next century.
“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 Planetary Defense Coordination Office posted on X Monda ...
The best case scenario is that the asteroid will pass within just 167,000 miles of our planet; the moon is 238,855 miles away, according to Space.com. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a ...