The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The new data is in. "NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future," the space agency said in an update on Feb. 24.

While Earth might not be in harm’s way, our moon is not entirely in the clear, according to NASA. The space agency said there is currently a 1.7 percent chance the asteroid could “impact ...

After months of increasing odds, the space agency has now revealed that the asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a negligible chance of hitting the planet in 2032. According to NASA's Sentry impact ...

In fact, YR4 now has a higher chance of crashing into the moon that year, with odds standing at 1.7%, according to NASA. "There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. “NASA analysis drops asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability to 0.004%, meaning it is expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032,” NASA ...

NASA scientists previously estimated ... climbing as high as 3.1 percent by February 18. The asteroid earned a rare score of three on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, which rates the danger ...