"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
Asked what people should do if astronomers identified a “city-killer” asteroid on a collision course for the United States, ...
A supernova 6 million years ago may have blasted Earth with radiation, triggering DNA mutations and accelerating evolution.
YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.
NASA “significantly lowered” the risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth, saying the chances are now almost zero. Just last ...
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...
Betts said, "The odds are very good that not only will this not hit Earth, but at some point in the next months to few years, that probability will go to zero." A similar scenario unfolded in 2004 ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...
NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock—named "2025 DJ22"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be ...