First spotted in December 2024 by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be ...
The odds of a recently discovered massive asteroid hitting Earth within the next seven years are shockingly not zero. Dubbed ...
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...
NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...