Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially given a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, has now had that threat officially ruled out thanks to new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The rate places its risk of collision above Asteroid 99942 Apophis, the "God of Chaos", discovered in 2004 that was given a 2.7 percent chance of hitting Earth by 2029. NASA’s Center for Near ...

The asteroid that caused panic about potentially colliding with Earth is the size of a building, Nasa has found. The Webb Space Telescope has captured more information and detailed pictures of ...

They argue that a killer asteroid could be eased off its collision course simply by ... 1 in 10,000 -- that this massive rock will hit Earth in 2036. Love and Lu say that if a gravitational ...

The asteroid is one of the more credible threats to Earth and ... strike in the year 2036 was also eventually ruled out, but the year 2068 still held the possibility of a collision between ...

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

But new direct observations of the asteroid by Nasa’s James Webb Space ... even a 1 per cent chance of a rock this big hitting the Earth may warrant the development of deflection missions.

The asteroid that caused panic about potentially colliding with Earth is the size of a building, Nasa has found. The Webb Space Telescope has captured more information and detailed pictures of ...