Giant Asteroid” has been a popular also-ran in the last three presidential elections, at least judging from bumper stickers, ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Last week, NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now has a 0.28 per cent chance of collision in 2032, or about 1 in ...

Scientists have nearly ruled out any threat from Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was previously believed to have a 3.1 per cent chance of hitting Earth. NASA had previously warned there was a small ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 was initially discovered late last year and is believed to measure between 130 and 300 feet across, comparable to the height of Big Ben. The giant space rock was immediately ...