1 day ago · "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

1 day ago · Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth in eight years. Still, there's up to a two per cent chance it will ...

4 days ago · The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

4 days ago · Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine its path.

3 days ago · On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth.

6 days ago · An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

6 days ago · A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

6 days ago · Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.

Jan 29, 2025 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a …

Dec 20, 2024 · Apophis quickly gained notoriety as an asteroid that could pose a serious threat to Earth when astronomers predicted that it would come uncomfortably close in 2029.