A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.
In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...
We interrupt our regular schedule of fish puns and naughty jokes about holes to warn you that a huge chunk of celestial ...
A potentially dangerous asteroid is being closely monitored by NASA with there being a small chance of it hitting Earth in ...
SCIENTISTS do not have much time to deflect an asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...