The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Asteroid 2021 CZ2 was discovered and recorded in early 2021, resulting in its designated name. Hence, scientists are well-familiar with this object. The Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The largest asteroid expected to make a close pass of Earth in 2021 will arrive in late ...

An asteroid the size of a house is approaching Earth today followed by two other smaller ... Meanwhile, a bus-sized asteroid ...

While YR4's impact odds have unseated Apophis, the larger asteroid still briefly hit a higher rating of 4 on the Torino Scale. A radar observation campaign in March 2021 during a distant flyby ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a ...

In 2021 a collaborative of scientists published a report that identified the immediate effects of an asteroid, including “shock waves that can knock down forests and buildings, thermal radiation ...

In the case of Apophis, further observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when the asteroid makes a close flyby to Earth in 2029 and again in 2036.