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NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

NASA's estimated chance that an asteroid could collide with Earth in 2032 was raised from 1.6% to 1.9%, with the news pulling ...

The only object to ever receive a higher rating than this was 99942 Apophis, nicknamed the 'doomsday asteroid', which was given a rating of four on the Torino scale. However, after more ...

With the latest update of the Doomsday Clock, scientists warn the end of the world is nigh – that is, of course, unless an asteroid gets there first. An asteroid the size of a jumbo jet that has ...

—'City-killer' asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, NASA says — We may finally know what causes Mars' gigantic, planet-wide dust storms Also in science news this week ...

This recurring rumor claims that a threatening "doomsday" asteroid is about to slam into our planet. An example from 2015 had an asteroid purported to hit Earth in late September, when it would ...

The Doomsday Clock update serves as a reminder of humanity’s vulnerability—without decisive action, we edge even closer to global catastrophe. ‘Enceladus is next’: A tiny asteroid just ...

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