Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have increased slightly since then, according to the European Space Agency.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have increased slightly since then, according to the European Space Agency.
An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance ... in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September 2023. Scientists have since been analyzing these samples ...
The asteroid, described as a potential "city-killer," was initially detected in December and its likelihood of impacting Earth has increased slightly, according to the European Space Agency.
The asteroid could flatten a city and lead to “local devastation”, estimates suggest. A similar-size rock landed in the Siberian wilderness in 1908 and devastated a thousand square miles of ...
An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...
The odds of an asteroid crashing into Earth in 2032 keep changing, and not in a good way. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 1-in-45 chance of impacting our planet in seven years. The odds are not a huge ...
A newly-discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher chance of hitting Earth than previously thought, according to scientists. The space rock - named 2024 YR4 - has a 2.2% chance of crashing into ...