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A space rock dubbed 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2.3% chance of smashing into our planet, NASA scientists announced.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ...

Here is a look at the 2024 YR4, how much destruction it can cause if it crashes into Earth, how often asteroids crash into Earth, and how space agencies are trying to deal with such situations. The ...

The table is basically an automated monitoring system that recalculates the impact possibilities of asteroids close-by to Earth over the next 100 years. Currently, according to CNEOS, the asteroid ...

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The latter of these two scenarios is called a meteor shower, which can be easily observed with the naked eye in the right conditions. Here are some key definitions that will help you understand what ...

ATLAS promptly reported the asteroid to the Minor Planet Center, a clearing house for the positional measurements of small bodies like asteroids and comets. The asteroid measures between 130 and ...

At the moment, there are no other asteroids with a Torino rating above zero. “It is an unusual event,” Chodas said. “Just being a 3 is pretty major.” The object’s hazard rating is the ...

A program under the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Sentry tracks any known asteroids that have a non-zero probability of hitting Earth.

The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet (40 and 100 meters) wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions ...