NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Moreover, NASA explains that small asteroids hit Earth all the time but, because of their size, they don't cause any damage. Instead, they create meteors ("shooting stars") that can be observed ...

Scientists are projecting a small but significant chance that an asteroid could strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Asteroids ... probability of hitting our planet that NASA has ever recorded ...

Related: Potentially hazardous asteroids ... to the NASA Center for Near Earth Object Studies. By January, scientists had determined that YR4 had a more than 1% chance of hitting Earth and ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, now has a 1.5% probability of hitting earth in 2032 ... take less explosives than other, more solid asteroids. NASA has not commented on whether it would send ...

The US space agency had feared the chances of deadly asteroid YR4 hitting Earth ... with the Moon instead. Nasa will continue to track asteroids that could fall into Earth's path - five of which ...

News media outlets published headlines placing 2024 YR4 in a "city killer" category of asteroids — terminology not used by NASA or ESA ... Asteroid's Chances of Hitting Earth Keep Shifting.

NASA now estimates that the space rock has a 0.0017 per cent chance chance of hitting Earth in ... hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets - said: "I'm ...

On Jan. 27, the asteroid surpassed a 1 percent chance of hitting Earth, an “important threshold,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Currently, no other known large asteroids ...

According to NASA's latest ... too – but hitting rubble pile asteroids with a spacecraft like DART could potentially generate a cloud of debris that could head towards Earth anyway.