A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

This asteroid is certainly worth watching because it could devastate a city with a direct hit—even on the small side of its size estimate. At one point ... quickly put forward a proposal ...

As they moved around, the direction of the fallen trees changed – all pointing inwards towards ... astronomers to extrapolate the asteroid’s motion forward over time, working out its orbit ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field ... longer poses a significant impact hazard to Earth" — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1%. Such an impact, if ...

After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. At one point, the odds of a strike ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all ...

said in a press release about the asteroid. “At this point, astronomers have measured the object’s orbit, and further observations will refine that orbit to give us a more precise ...

Since its discovery, the asteroid’s probability of an impact with our planet has gone all over the place. At one point, the risk rose as high as 3.1%. This may not sound like a lot, until you ...

The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that once had a ... Earth would probably go up and then at some point rapidly fall to zero as new observations ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut. It's so long that the spacecraft couldn't capture it ...