About 3,000 new near-Earth objects are found each year, but it’s been more difficult to find asteroids within the size range of 2024 YR4 because they’re dark, smaller and harder to spot with ...

In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and destroyed ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated ... the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs.

Happy Chinese New Year. 7) Lunar New Year 2024 brings with it the possibility ... each associated with one of the five elements—wood, fire, earth, metal, or water—forming a 60-year cycle.

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to minimal levels, but its extraordinarily close approach will offer astronomers th ...

Earth is permanently surrounded by ... X-class solar flares hit a new record in 2024 and could spike further this year — but the sun isn't entirely to blame, experts say —Sunspots surge ...

Astronomers have recently raised the odds of this ‘city-killer’ asteroid, about the size of New ... years of preparation not be possible. Is asteroid 2024 YR4 on a collision course with Earth ...

The great solar storm of May 2024 ... really new'." And NASA's Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) satellite had slept through the whole thing. Designed to study Earth's Van Allen ...

New calculations suggest there’s a 2% chance the space rock 2024 YR4 will smack Earth in 2032 ... the solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. There are so many asteroids orbiting ...