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YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

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YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Asteroid 2003 MH4 will pass at a distance of 6.68 million kilometers from Earth on May 24, 2025. Although this is gargantuan in terms of human measurement, it is close in terms of the universe.

It's last trip near Earth came about two years ago, May 27, 2023, and after the 2025 flyby, it'll be about another two years until we see 2002 JX8 again on April 15, 2027.

NASA JPL in California tracks asteroid The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approache s to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by ...

It's last trip near Earth came about two years ago, May 27, 2023, and after the 2025 flyby, it'll be about another two years until we see 2002 JX8 again on April 15, 2027.

“We've discovered more than 30,000 near-Earth objects so far, and we're discovering hundreds more every year,” says Vishnu Reddy, professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona.

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.