An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...
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The risk assessment has fluctuated since the asteroid’s discovery late last year, when it was rated at a 1.2% probability of hitting our planet. The impact probability is expected to keep ...