Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

My favorite horror game of 2024, and one of the year's best narratives ... purposefully setting the vessel on a collision course with an asteroid. After crash landing, the ship is compromised ...

"Twisters" is just the latest in a long line of epic disaster, action, and sci-fi movies that all manage to keep us on the ...

Photograph by Chris Gunn, NASA “I haven’t gotten around to putting this up,” Seager says, unrolling a poster that’s a ... sail for NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout, a robotic ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

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 ...

when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth in 2032. The chances of an impact remain low — but ...

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 ...

A newly-discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher chance of hitting Earth than previously thought, according to scientists. The space rock - named 2024 YR4 - has a 2.2% chance of crashing into ...

China has started assembling a planetary defence team to counter the threat of near-Earth asteroids following the discovery of a large asteroid that could strike our planet in seven years.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about half the width of a football field and will pass very close to Earth on December 22, 2032, coming within approximately 106,200 km Asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object ...