The asteroid 2024 YR4 was, for a brief time, thought to be on a ...

A new paper is looking into the possibility of the collision being a reality and the kind of scientific opportunities it ...

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 percent ...

NASA is currently monitoring a plane-sized asteroid set to zoom past the Earth on August 22 at a speed of around 18,678 mph. The space rock—known as "2023 PX"— is about 73 feet across and is set to ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustrative image of an asteroid near the Earth. (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) Asteroid 2025 MA90 is set to fly past the Earth ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

If researchers one day spot an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has already demonstrated that we can change its path by smashing a spaceship ...

View post: Amazon's AI Ring Doorbell Just Humiliated the Tech Giant With an 'Award' No One Wants Astronomers say a recently-discovered asteroid nearly landed on Earth, and that it could have caused ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid that’s approaching Earth at a zippy 36,216 miles per hour. The asteroid—known as “2025 TC”—is projected to make its closest approach at just 53,400 miles from ...