Asteroids fly by Earth on a regular basis ... Once an observatory first spots a previously undiscovered asteroid, astronomers report the find to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, ...
Then, the asteroid had a 1.2% chance of striking Earth. Having a 97.7% chance of not being hit by ... February full moon: When to spot the next full moon, comets and other space events in ...
NASA and the ESA regularly track thousands of near-Earth asteroids, but depending on the size, the space rocks are not always easy to spot. But improvements in asteroid survey technology ...
UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it has an almost 99% chance of safely ...