Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

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

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

Despite uncertainties, vigilance remains crucial to mitigate risks. Nasa is keeping a close watch on an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032, sparking global talks on how to stop such a ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the probability ...

This increasing threat was brought to light by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), which put the asteroid on their watch list. In February, the threat of impact was a record one-in-32 ...

NASA said it is continuing to watch the asteroid to collect enough data "so that our planetary defense experts can determine future risk to the Earth." "Currently, asteroid 2024 YR4 has a very ...