An astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is tracking a huge asteroid that could ... NASA rated the probability of a collision at 3.1%. That is the highest likelihood ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

A group of scientists is currently testing the possibility of a collision between Earth and the asteroid using a method called Monte Carlo simulation. This method involves generating thousands of ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

If this collision were to happen ... On Friday, a chilling simulation showed what would happen if the city-killing asteroid did hit Earth. Created by 3D specialist Alvaro Gracia Montoya at ...

But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance of collision once associated with an asteroid discovered in 2004 called Apophis, making 2024 YR4 the most significant space rock to be spotted ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 piqued the interest ... the re-routing of a celestial object via spacecraft collision. By running a number of simulations before completing the actual test, LANL was able to ...