"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 ...

Another asteroid named "2012 DZ", with an estimated size of up to 36 metres, is also expected to come within about 662,000 miles of Earth this evening, CNEOS said. Just last week, an asteroid ...

A collision from an asteroid of this size would have been around a once-in-a-thousand-years event, based on a NASA asteroid hazard comparison chart. "NASA's planetary defense teams will continue ...

That was enough to trigger some concern, but astronomers cautioned that more data was needed to fully understand the asteroid's trajectory and size. The new data is in. "NASA has significantly ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The meteor, known as asteroid 2024 YR4, has been likened to the size of Big Ben and is increasingly likely to collide with earth. The space agency now predicts that there is a one-in-32, or 3.1 ...

"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 90 m ...