A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million km) of Earth on June 5 and you can watch it happen live online.

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the "city-killer" asteroid that's potentially on a collision course with Earth. Primary Menu Sections US News ...

The massive space rock is large enough to wipe out a small city, and it’s moving toward Earth at about 27,500 miles per hour, according to NASA. An asteroid the “size of a football stadium ...

On October 22, an asteroid burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over the eastern Pacific Ocean. If you didn’t hear about it, that’s because it was only about a meter (3 feet) wide.

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. 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 ...

The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven years have fluctuated recently, but experts aren’t preparing for the worst yet. At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was recently calculated to have a 1-out-of-43 chance of striking our planet. By contrast, last week 2024 YR4 had only a 1-out-of-83 ...

The highest estimate, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, suggested a 3.1% chance the asteroid will hit Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, during a fleeting window of time in which the rock's orbit around ...

An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million km) of Earth on June 5 and you can watch it happen live online.

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has jumped from more than 1% to 3% and ... This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system shows the motion of asteroid ...