Near miss, in this case, is a relative term: Saturday’s asteroid, 2024 MK, will come within 180,000 miles of Earth. On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011 UL21 flew within 4 million miles.

In a cosmic twist of fate, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid previously thought to pose a significant threat, will not collide with our planet in 2032.

According to asteroid expert Davide Farnocchia, who works for NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, asteroids the size of 2024 MK only pass by about every 25 years.

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

This near-miss was one of two close encounters ... passed at a safe distance of 4.1 million miles from Earth. Discovered in 2011, this asteroid was found to have a small moon orbiting it ...

MetaBallStudios / SWNS While there’s still a 96.2% chance the asteroid will miss the satellite completely ... according to experts at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

UNDATED (WKRC) - An asteroid the size of a football stadium weaved between the moon and the Earth on Saturday ... t be any threats to the planet in the near future. "As far as we know, there's ...

NASA’s asteroid-hunting Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope ... Most if not all dangerously sized asteroids will miss the planet. The hope is that, with these next-gen telescopes, the ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away ... we will have initial uncertainties about their miss-distance from Earth," Binzel said. "But just like YR4, with a little ...

NASA said the asteroid was about 70 centimeters ... the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about comets and ...

The most serious near-miss, and the closest comparison with ... It would help them test the scenarios they have modelled about asteroid impacts on Earth, helping create better predictions.