TN17, a massive space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is racing towards Earth at 77,282 km/h and is classified as potentially ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The latest calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements had suggested. Late on 19 February, telescopic observations of the ...

If, say, those images dated back a few years, then “we’d suddenly have years’ worth of data instead of weeks or months,” which Rivkin notes would greatly help narrow down the asteroid’s ...

TN17, a giant space rock as big as the Taj Mahal, is hurtling towards Earth at 77,282 km/h, classified as a potentially ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

which is a color-coded scale that astronomers use to assess the risk of an asteroid or comet hitting Earth. The agency notes that it “expects the impact probability to continue to evolve” as it ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid will safely zip by Earth in seven years, according to NASA. The agency also shared that the new ...

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Since early January, Chinese scientists have been continuously observing an asteroid that has a small chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. By combining global data, astronomers have updated the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat ...