The asteroid unleashed an energy of 250 tons of TNT when it fragmented over Ohio, causing the booms and explosive noises heard as far as New York, officials said.

There were concerns that Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon or Earth.

NASA has announced that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a space rock roughly the size of a 20-story building, no longer poses a threat of crashing into the Moon during its close approach in 2032.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory were focused on using the Webb telescope because the asteroid has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA scientist has warned that thousands of city-killing asteroids could strike Earth, and there’s currently no defense humanity ...

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