Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

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If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...

The risk assessment has fluctuated since the asteroid’s discovery late last year, when it was rated at a 1.2% probability of hitting our planet. The impact probability is expected to keep ...

The odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 have increased to 1 in 43. Despite this, you still shouldn't worry about the potential impact of this asteroid. That's because experts ...

UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that it has an almost 99% chance of safely ...

Today, developer Asteroid Lab and Goblinz Studio along with publisher Klabater have announced that their latest DLC for their colony building title ‘Terraformers’, dubbed “Megastructures”, is now ...