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

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

while the stars appear to move in the background. Any telescope on the planet can contribute to planetary defense: If an astronomer anywhere on Earth spies an object that looks like an asteroid ...

Applicants must be younger than 35 and “maintain a firm political stance” in line with the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, the job listing said.

In other words, Earth has suffered such a blow ... This sequence of images is aligned so that the asteroid is at the center, with background stars moving through the frame. Credit: ESO/O.

Now, "it's down to about one in a few hundred thousand … and that's below the background of things ... less than a decade away." The asteroid now rates zero on the scale. Chodas says most of the ...

What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images) Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science! For now ...

"The sky background is higher and thus finding ... Scale – even though there is a nearly 97% chance the asteroid will pass Earth safely in seven years.

(CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency. While the odds of an impact are slim ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

Now, "it's down to about one in a few hundred thousand … and that's below the background ... The asteroid now rates zero on the scale. Chodas says most of the really big potential Earth ...