Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which was originally spotted in late 2024. A NASA dashboard gave the chance of the asteroid colliding with Earth a 1.9% chance of happening around Dec. 22, ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...
New NASA observations show a near-Earth asteroid with more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth in seven years.
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...
An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...
New fossils provide clues How did wolves evolve into dogs? New fossils provide clues We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from We just learned where the asteroid that ended din ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...