NASA has updated its assessment of asteroid 2024 YR4 ... This probability surpasses the 3% risk once assigned to asteroid ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, researchers noticed a concerning sight in the sky. After careful observation and calculation, they revealed ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

this asteroid was the biggest threat NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) had ever reported for an asteroid of this size. Now, the Torino scale — a risk level assessment tool used to ...

NASA announced the first reduced impact risk on its X feed at ... The updated assessments were based on new orbital data for the asteroid, which is estimated to be around 180 feet (55 meters ...

The latest assessment from NASA ... if it does, the asteroid will make landfall at 8.52am GMT on Wednesday, December 22, with NASA painting a "risk corridor" home to more than 100million people.

More than 100 million people live at risk from a huge 'city killer' asteroid hurtling in the direction of Earth, NASA scientists have said. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is estimated to have a one-in-32 (3.1% ...

Astronomers from NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station ... They gather telescope data and feed it into risk assessment models for better clarity. Plans are already in place ...

The space rock once posed the greatest risk of impact to Earth in recorded history, but NASA downgraded the odds of impact to near-zero just days later, stating that the asteroid is no longer a ...

A NASA scientist has warned that "the risk of an asteroid impact is real" and the "consequences would be huge" as he urges people to think about how "there could be something coming". Planetary ...

An asteroid that space experts formerly determined had a small chance of colliding with Earth has been seen for the first time. Nasa said scientists used the Webb Space Telescope to capture more ...