Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years ... there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

strike it and change the asteroid's path by up to 620 miles (1,000 km). This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

TN17 will safely pass Earth this time, NASA's warning serves as a reminder of the lurking dangers in space. Scientists and ...

TN17, a gigantic space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is speeding towards Earth at 77,282 km/h. It is rated as possibly ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

so are more likely to hit. The resonant “pumping” stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth’s orbit, giving it a chance to impact.