"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...

Thankfully the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are extremely low but NASA is still keeping an eye ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Now experts have modelled what the possible impact of 2024 YR4 – equal to 15,000,000 tons of TNT – could look like.

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while ...

After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight ... scientists infer the size of asteroids from the amount of light they reflect, which also depends on their composition.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved ...

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And Catalina Sky Survey engineer David Rankin wrote on Bluesky: "This is one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever ... known large asteroids have an ...

Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions, according to the ESA. The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a ...