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The event leveled trees and destroyed forests across 830 square miles (2,150 square kilometers). And in 2013, a 20-meter-wide (66-foot-wide) asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere over Chelyabinsk ...

Weeks after Webb glimpsed the asteroid, NASA and the European Space Agency are releasing findings and images from the telescope's observations. Most ominously, while Earth is still safe from the ...

This flyby is part of a series of five near-Earth approaches currently being closely monitored by NASA's Asteroid Watch Dashboard ... furnished by NASA. Getty Images / mikdam Alongside "2021 ...

At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but gone, but we now have pictures of the once ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth’s hit list. Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was ...

getty The asteroid was first reported in December 2024 and is large enough to destroy an entire city. It was initially calculated to have a 1% chance of hitting the Earth in the year 2032.

Earlier this year, a roughly 200-foot near-Earth asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, made major headlines, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab warning that there was a small chance it could impact our planet on ...

NASA's Webb Telescope Captures Photos of the Asteroid That Won't Hit Earth in 2032 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir ...