Astronomers can usually spot “planet killer” asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can’t?
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A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years....
Scientists still have much to learn about the potentially life-saving “kinetic impactor technique.”
Asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been...
Dangerous rocks may co-orbit with Venus, but new research suggests only a space-based mission can prove it.
Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a...
New Webb Telescope data reconfirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032...
2024 YR4 turned heads when it became the most dangerously rated asteroid earlier this week.
2024 YR4’s odds jumped to a 1-in-32 chance of impact, though that number will likely fall as...
