When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Science news this week includes an asteroid's secrets and the Doomsday Clock's latest update.

While the apparent increase in collision probability for December 2032 may seem concerning, experts stress that the risk ...

In this newspaper last week astronomer Martin George from the Ulverstone Planetarium reported on the asteroid called 2024 YR4 ...

FILE: Image mosaic of asteroid. (Credit ... This is certainly not the kind of news that doomsday believers want to hear, as it would mean social media users would need to dream up a new ...

The asteroid is currently 27 million miles away and has a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. After the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station in Chile detected ...

That's according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who this week moved the hand of their "Doomsday Clock" to ... also released its own image generator program called Janus-Pro-7B, which ...

Chodas said scientists are looking at sky surveys from 2016, when predictions show the asteroid also ventured close. If scientists can find the space rock in images from then, they should be able ...

Another photograph that Ksanfomaliti said was a scorpion is actually a blur in the image. This recurring rumor claims that a threatening "doomsday" asteroid is about to slam into our planet.