coming within 66,000 miles (106,200 kilometres), but when the "orbital uncertainties" – the unknowns in predicting its path – are taken into account, the asteroid could impact our planet directly.

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump ... Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life ...

Okay, I am being overly dramatic by the title, the asteroid YR4 was initially projected to have a 3.1% chance of hitting the ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...