The odds of a strike will almost certainly continue to go up and down as the asteroid’s path around the sun is better understood.
Since the asteroid YR4 was first discovered in December 2024, the odds that it could crash into earth have more than doubled.
Scientists are debating multiple options to deal with an asteroid which could hit Earth in 2032 – but one is emerging as the ...
ispace's Resilience lander launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. It is taking an energy-efficient, circuitous route to the moon, and only ...
An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with Earth, according to the United States Geological Survey. Small asteroids ...
Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.
The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.
On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...
Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...
Journalist Eric Lipton discusses Trump and his allies’ cryptocurrency schemes, Elon Musk’s operations, and more.
The latest State of Play arrived, and plenty of games were shown during the presentation that PlayStation owners can look ...
In this week’s episode of Space Minds meet Yao Song, a Chinese entrepreneur and CEO of Orienspace. Raised in a Communist revolution, Orienspace’s founder now ...