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On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the probability ...

Time to breathe a sigh of relief. The asteroid that once posed the greatest impact risk to Earth in recorded history now has an effective 0% chance of striking our planet. The probability of asteroid ...

Space has a reminder mechanism that only reminds us of things that are even more terrifying than what they get. An asteroid named 2026 CC is moving in a path that would pass by Earth at approximately ...

Sloths are the slowest mammals of all, but asteroid 2026 HX3 is anything but that – both in terms of being slow and in terms of being mammals.