Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

It was given the highest ever risk level, but there's some good news.

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth keeps shifting, according to scientists. The object — which is large enough to destroy an entire city — has a 0.28% chance of colliding with ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale, giving it a 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Judge denies request to temporarily block DOGE's mass firings, access to data NFL ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

Binzel, a professor of astronomy and planetary science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who invented the Torino Impact Hazard Scale for measuring these space rocks, we should not think ...

NASA currently has 2024 YR4 at a 3 on the Torino Scale, which is a tool scientists use to understand the threat that near-Earth objects (NEOs) may pose. Objects are given a rating between 0 and 10 ...

According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab's Sentry System, asteroid 2024 YR4 recently crept up to having a 2-3% probability of hitting Earth, earning it a level-three alert on the Torino Scale ...

While scientists revealed the OSIRIS-REx findings this week, a newly discovered asteroid reached level three on the 10-point Torino space impactor hazard scale, the second highest rating given to ...