A space rock dubbed 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2.3% chance of smashing into our planet, NASA scientists announced.
No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...
That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...
An asteroid named 2024 YR4, first spotted Dec. 27, is possibly headed right toward Earth, but we don't need to run for cover just yet. Here's why.
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...
Cancel anytime. A 59-year-old man died Sunday night after his SUV crashed into two utility poles in central Omaha. The crash occurred about 10:10 p.m. near 50th and A Streets, according to a ...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.
The would-be asteroid was first spotted by an amateur astronomer parsing the Minor Planet Centers' archive who hoped he had discovered a near-Earth object, Astronomy reported. The Minor Planet ...
On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...
NASA warns of a giant asteroid, 2024 WY70, approaching Earth at 36,606 km/h. At 820 feet wide and as big as a football stadium, it will pass safely at 6.3 million kilometres from Earth on January ...