A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

Scientists have increased the risk that the 196ft-wide 2024 YR asteroid could smash into Earth to 1-in-43 – and there's some more bad news to go with it ...

An automated telescope in Chile has spotted a 100 metre-wide asteroid that scientists say could collide with Earth in the year 2032. The possibility, they say, is 1.3%. Still, that's enough to have ...

A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is somewhere between 130 to 300 feet wide — not big enough to pose a global threat. Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary sciences, told BI that if it struck Earth ...

Just in time for Christmas. The space rock is between 130 feet and 330 feet long, so about the size of Big Ben. It’s the only large asteroid with an impact probability above 1%. The ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Studies of the samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's spacecraft have revealed that the early solar system had widespread conditions and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path. The risk will likely drop ...

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