The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth keeps shifting, according to scientists. The object — which is large enough to destroy an entire city — has a 0.28% chance of colliding with ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

which is why it's taken such a long journey -- and long time -- to swing by Earth again, according to The Planetary Society. A green comet will appear in the night sky this week, for the first ...

Research has identified approximately 200 locations where these asteroids or comets have struck the ... In January, the probability of this asteroid hitting Earth surpassed one percent, which ...

Comet Impacts Formed Continents When Solar System Entered Arms of Milky Way Aug. 24, 2022 — New research has found evidence that Earth's early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our ...

This also means that the asteroid has currently been downgraded on the Torino Scale, which is a color-coded scale that astronomers use to assess the risk of an asteroid or comet hitting Earth.