It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of Astronomy Ireland told DublinLive that 2024 YR4 would be a “country killer ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a more than 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That’s good ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
CQ, about the size of a 15-story building, is expected to pass near Earth on February 5, 2025. Measuring 150 feet in width, ...
NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
NASA researchers have been studying rock and dust brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu. Those particles revealed ...
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
Fears have grown about the asteroid since it was first spotted and expert astronomers admitted it has a chance of hitting Earth.