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With the picture being released, this is the description of the Asteroid provided by NASA: “Asteroid Ryugu, a near-Earth and potentially hazardous asteroid, is classified as a Cb-type asteroid ...

At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but gone, but we now have pictures of the once ...

Those recent images revealed ... And despite being deemed as "potentially hazardous," — NASA's term for any asteroid that floats within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million km) of Earth's orbit ...

The event leveled trees and destroyed forests across 830 square miles (2,150 square kilometers). And in 2013, a 20-meter-wide (66-foot-wide) asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere over Chelyabinsk ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow ... "ATLAS survey obtained images that included detections of a small object in a high-probability ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and ... "ATLAS survey obtained images that included detections of a small object ...