That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely. According to NASA, the odds of a collision are just 2.3%. But that nearly ...
China has initiated the formation of a planetary defence team to address the potential danger posed by near-Earth asteroids.
Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...
YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...
We might already be too late to knock ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 out of the way with a tested method, a scientist has ...
The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made.
NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...