Akhenaten was an Egyptian Pharaoh back in the 1300s BCE who upended the religious landscape of ancient Egypt. Within years of ...

Measuring approximately 97 feet (30 metres) – equivalent to the size of a small building – this space rock is classified as an Aten asteroid, a group of near-Earth objects with orbits that ...

(Aten asteroids are a group known as "Earth-crossing ... then the next step is to figure out ways to find them. Certainly, asteroid surveys will help, along with further observations of their ...

(Aten asteroids are a group known as "Earth-crossing" asteroids ... then the next step is to figure out ways to find them. Certainly, asteroid surveys will help, along with further observations of ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

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A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

An asteroid is coming close to Earth in the future — but officials urge the public not to panic. Just days after astronomers initially insisted that the likelihood of a direct hit of the planet ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...