Newly discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten quite a bit of attention over the past week, as scientists initially determined that it had a chance of hitting Earth in 2032. The internet, of course, ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the estimated sulfur release and its effects on the ...

The good news is, this increase does not mean that the asteroid has become more dangerous. The path of the asteroid is defined by physical laws. It's already clear. It's just our knowledge of ...

"When you see the impact odds go up, it doesn't give you a good feeling," Betts added. "But there's much more likelihood that it's okay." Telescopes will refine the asteroid's orbit around the ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." It might not look like much in this image, but this is the ...

The chances has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, officials said. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

“We need to observe it more, and then we can make an informed decision about that, but it’s good that we have ... “It’s not a dinosaur-killing asteroid, which was 10 kilometers in diameter ...

The size of the asteroid is significant enough to cause a dinosaur level extinction level event for humanity. NASA’s JPL has classified 2024 YR4 as a Level 3 threat on the Torino Scale, a system used ...

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid with a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. The asteroid is estimated to be about 40-90 meters wide, big enough to cause local devastation but not ...

ESA-Science Office If you’ve been following the story of an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032, there’s bad news and good news. The bad news is that the likelihood of the asteroid striking ...