It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years ... such as comets. In September 2022, NASA demonstrated that it was possible to nudge ...

The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid smashing into the Earth on December 22, 2032 appear to have ticked up slightly. NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide space ...

Now, with the final touches in place, this once-dated unit at VFW Post 720 has been transformed into a sanctuary for healing. ABC15's Cameron Polom met the team behind the project and saw ...

Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 ... called the DART mission, in September 2022 to assess the ...

The OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at the 1,850-foot-wide asteroid in 2020, scooped up rock and dirt, and then jetted back to Earth. On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx return capsule parachuted down to a ...

The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth, it turned out ... There would be a huge fireball that would start fires out to 15 kilometers, something like that. It would kill a lot of people ...

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An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...