The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

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

NASA on Feb. 24 said, "There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet for the next century." The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level 0 out of 10 on the Torino Impact ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...

(NewsNation) — The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again, NASA says, but the chance of an actual impact is still quite slim.

While Earth might not be in harm’s way, our moon is not entirely in the clear, according to NASA. The space agency said there is currently a 1.7 percent chance the asteroid could “impact ...

The new data is in. "NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future," the space agency said in an update on Feb. 24.

Although good news for Earth, NASA says the new data increases the chances of an asteroid impact with the Moon to 1%. The asteroid will continue to be visible from Earth through April, giving ...

After months of increasing odds, the space agency has now revealed that the asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a negligible chance of hitting the planet in 2032. According to NASA's Sentry impact ...

In fact, YR4 now has a higher chance of crashing into the moon that year, with odds standing at 1.7%, according to NASA. "There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet ...