Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
On December 22, 3032, asteroid 2024 YR4 could pass by safely, coming no closer to us than 1.7 million kilometres, or over 4 ...
Astronomers have revealed the potential impact area of a 'city-killer' asteroid that has a slight chance of hitting Earth on ...
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.
NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.
Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...
On Christmas Day 2024 researchers found a huge 196-foot space rock that has only 1 percent of a chance of hitting Earth.
Estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, Asteroid 2024 YR4 grabbed the attention of astronomers when it rose on the NASA automated Sentry risk list on December 31, 2024.
According to research from NASA’s Center of NEO Studies the asteroid is projected to come within 66,000 miles of earth on ...
YR4 has been placed at the top of the dangerous space object watch list with NASA and the European Space Agency ...