One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Astronomers will have more information later this spring about the asteroid's path and its likelihood of hitting Earth.

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That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely. According to NASA, the odds of a collision are just 2.3%. But that nearly ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

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YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.