Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

These rocky bodies vary in size and trajectory, and some can pose a real risk if they come too close. Experts recently identified asteroid 2024 YR4, spotted on December 27, 2024, and they note a small ...

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one per cent chance of ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%.Related video above ...

I'm ready to get in. Come on in. All right, let's try. Let's see if we can do it. A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday ...

Space agencies are closely monitoring a newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, which has a probability of colliding with Earth in some years from now, according to assessments from NASA and the European ...

An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than an atomic bomb has triggered global space agency alarms. The odds that the space rock dubbed Y4, which is nearly ...