The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
Potentially hazardous asteroids are NEOs that are larger than 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter and that could come within 4.65 million miles (7.48 million km) of Earth, or roughly 20 times the ...
The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.
probably. Astronomers have almost found all the kilometer-sized ... [+] asteroids. There’s a little under 1,000 of them—and none of them will strike Earth in the next 1,000 years. When will an ...
Here are the answers to the 10 most common FAQs about asteroids. Asteroid Day is just around the corner and there are many questions that people have about asteroids. From what exactly is an ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.