Sources: USA Today
The European Space Agency announces that the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 has decreased to 1.5% (1-in-67), and is likely to decrease further to less than 1%. 2025-02-21
NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies says that the probability of asteroid 2024 YR impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 has increased to 2.3%, or a (1-in-43) chance, following further observations of its trajectory. More observations are planned in the coming months to gather data on the asteroid before it moves too far away from Earth-based telescopes to be accurately observed. 2025-02-6
NASA says that its DART spacecraft has successfully altered the orbit of the 520 ft asteroid Dimorphos by around 32 minutes in a demonstration of asteroid impact avoidance. 2022-10-11
JAXA space probe "Hayabusa2" delivers the first ever subsurface asteroid samples to Earth. The capsule, containing a small amount of material from Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu, landed in the Australian outback. 2020-12-5
The United States government releases a Near-Earth Object Preparedness Plan for reducing risks of asteroid or comet impacts. 2018-06-20
2015 TH (previously known as V774104), a 100–400 kilometer asteroid, is announced as possibly the fourth most distant known Solar System object from the Sun at nearly 90 (±10) times Earth's distance from the Sun. 2018-03-13
NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. 2015-03-6
Asteroid 2013 TV135 is discovered with an approximately 1 in 63,000 chance of colliding with the earth in 2032. 2013-10-18
A newly observed near-Earth asteroid 2013 EC passes Earth within the orbit of the Moon. 2013-03-4
Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 with an estimated diameter of about 50 m comes within 17,200 miles (27,700 km) from the Earth's surface. This distance is a record close approach for a known object of such size. 2013-02-15