“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the ...

No more looking back in anger for Noel and Liam Gallagher: the Oasis frontmen are kicking off a reunion tour starting this Friday. It’s been 15 years since the squabbling siblings split, ending one of ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

June 30 is Asteroid Day, which honors the Tunguska event in Russia 117 years ago and teaches about asteroids and their ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 2.3% chance of striking the Earth on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2032, according to experts from NASA and the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN).. In an IAWN ...

After YR4 was first discovered in late-2024, its odds of impact with Earth briefly rose to historically high levels before it was eventually ruled out as a threat during an upcoming flyby. Because the ...

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5. Measuring between 1,017 and 2,264 feet, it is bigger than 97 per cent of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a diameter between 40 to 90 metres and was referred to as a ... Russian Siberia, a remote region where huge areas of forest were devastated but few people injured.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, ... an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a threat to Earth. Initial calculations suggested a potential impact in 2032, leading to significant concern. However, recent observations ...