The latest calculations show that the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" has an increased chance of striking our planet in Dec.
Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.
NASA calculates a 2.3% chance of the asteroid, over 50 meters in size, impacting our planet. The Space Agency and NASA have recalculated their predictions, and the chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...
Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...