YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

As Euronews notes, those vast swathes contain some of the largest cities on Earth ... claiming the crown as the "'riskiest' asteroid ever detected." "As more observations of the asteroid are ...

But just two days ago, the odds had grown to 3.1 percent, setting a record for the highest probability for any asteroid of its size ever tracked ... that Tunguska, the largest asteroid impact ...

The amount of light reflected by the asteroid's surface is used to estimate how big it is.However ... hit the planet is the highest risk level ever recorded. Despite the slim odds of an impact ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

The amount of light reflected by the asteroid's surface is used to estimate how big it is. Since early January, astronomers have used the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico, the Danish ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - NASA projects that an asteroid has reached the highest chance of hitting earth, ever. “That percentage of a 3.1 percent ... “There may be essentially a big pressure wave that ...

NASA will use the Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space, to measure the asteroid’s orbit as accurately as possible, the agency announced on Monday.