2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

This alarming probability briefly landed the asteroid atop impact risk lists maintained by NASA and the European Space Agency, triggering planetary defense discussions and prompting intensive ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

While we can't be certain, the analysis could not rule out an asteroid with a rocky composition. If this is the case, the researchers calculated, an impact with Earth would release energy between ...

While the chance is still small, the updated forecast does note an increased impact risk that the city-killer asteroid will strike the Moon. Originally discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 ...

The early calculations predicted an impact probability of 1.3% with Earth on December 22nd, 2032, and estimated its size to be between 40 and 90 meters. These estimates gave the asteroid a Torino ...

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

Specifically, a drop in the availability of dinosaur fossils from the years leading up to the asteroid has led some scientists to believe the giants were doomed regardless of the impact.

April 3 (UPI) --NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is the size of a 10-story building and is now more likely to make impact with the moon. Designated as near ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made the discovery after completing the first of two planned observations of asteroid 2024 YR4. “While an Earth impact by 2024 YR4 on December 22 ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...