Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...
The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.
The volcanologist threw cold water on the defense potential of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which ...
NASA says it's aware of an asteroid with a "very small chance" of hitting Earth in seven years. It's raised questions about ...
NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of ... and South Asia.” The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on Christmas Day 2024 ...
China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably ...
The asteroid Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small potential of entering the earth's atmosphere on December 22, 2032 and scientists ...