A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
NASA is continuously refining its tracking of 2024 YR4, using its network of telescopes, including the repurposed WISE Space ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
The asteroid Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small potential of entering the earth's atmosphere on December 22, 2032 and scientists ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.
NASA says it's aware of an asteroid with a "very small chance" of hitting Earth in seven years. It's raised questions about what scientists could do to divert a threatening asteroid — and who would be ...
While the apparent increase in collision probability for December 2032 may seem concerning, experts stress that the risk ...
NASA has released the first video of asteroid 2024 YR4, a 200-foot-wide space rock that has a 1.3% chance of striking Earth in 2032.
U.S. and British scientists used photos ... an ancient asteroid strike carved out a pair of grand canyons on the moon’s far side. (Ernie T. Wright/NASA via AP) The incoming space rock passed ...