NASA and ESA are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, with an estimated size of up to 328 feet and a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth.
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...
YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...
A newly-discovered asteroid about 100 metres wide and on a potential collision course with Earth has activated international planetary defence teams ...