This artist’s concept compares the approximate size of Lucy’s next asteroid target, Donaldjohanson, to the smallest main belt asteroids previously visited by spacecraft — Dinkinesh, visited by Lucy in ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ... agency when the odds of an impact were higher. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines ... Even if this one is at the high end of its predicted size range, 80 m is a pebble in comparison. The only other object to have outranked 2024 YR4 ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 specifically, ...

"It is very important that we improve our size estimate for 2024 YR4," the ESA said in a statement Monday, which noted "the hazard represented by a 40 m asteroid is very different from that of a ...

“The main comparison point we have for a stony asteroid impact of this magnitude is Tunguska,” Dr. Kumamoto said. The Tunguska event of 1908 involved an asteroid similar in size to 2024 YR4 ...

If it did collide with Earth, an asteroid of that size could cause an explosion in the atmosphere or even create an impact crater, according to the Planetary Society. Both possibilities would ...

"It is very important that we improve our size estimate for 2024 YR4," the ESA said in a statement Monday, which noted "the hazard represented by a 40 m asteroid is very different from that of a ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ... agency when the odds of an impact were higher. The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet ...

How does this compare with the asteroid that wiped out ... The good news is that an asteroid the size of YR4 is likely to hit Earth only once every few thousand years. And bigger asteroids ...