NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...
Days after it was confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1-in-83 chance of colliding with Earth, American space agency, Nasa ...
Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...
Video Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid is going to swing by Earth in 2032 with a 1-in-100 chance of hitting ...
Instead of space-time’s three spatial dimensions and one of time, the physics of our world could be encoded into a set of odd geometrical shapes – and studying them may chart a new ...
An asteroid named 2024 WY70 is due to pass Earth this weekend. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Asteroids are generally too faint to have been detected by the current techniques and surveys ...
How do you cope with being so far from the people you love? Those are some of the questions explored in the novel Orbital, which won the Booker Prize late last year. In the book, author Samantha ...
Apollo asteroids like 2014 SC324 routinely cross Earth's orbit, Atens also cross but have different orbital characteristics and Amors cross Mars' orbit but miss Earth's (ESA) If there is a larger ...