The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...
An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has a 97.9% chance to safely pass the Earth in 2032, as per NASA scientists. If it strikes, the ...
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
Observations and data gathered since the initial sighting concluded that, as of Jan. 31, the asteroid is 30 million miles from Earth and moving farther away on its orbital path around the sun.
The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim. New ...
If the 2024 YR4 upcoming asteroid directly hits Earth, CBS News reported that the explosion from it would equate to around eight megatons of TNT, which is more than 500 times the explosiveness of ...
They found that the inner core once spun faster than Earth itself. But beginning around 2010 ... Earth will likely be obliterated as our sun expands into a red giant and swallows the inner ...