The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...

A camera aboard India’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft captured the Earth and moon. The spacecraft launched atop a PSLV rocket. Credit: ...

Astronomers are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a slim 1.2% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032. Measuring between 40 and 100 meters wide, if it impacts, it could cause ...

We’ll be able to follow the asteroid ... imperil life on Earth’s surface are much less frequent. The most famous impact came some 66 million years ago. A giant rock from space, at least ...

Astronomy doesn’t stop. On Christmas Day 2024 researchers made a significant discovery with the identification of a 196-foot asteroid hurtling towards earth. The space rock is currently around ...

Is an asteroid set to collide with Earth in 2032? Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) say they have spotted a space rock that could smash into the Earth. While the ...

and perhaps space junk, can go. Was this a sign of innovation, or just Elon Musk's trash orbiting Earth? Asteroid or Elon Musk's junk newly discovered near-Earth object turns out to be his Tesla ...

the near-Earth asteroid - designated 2024 YR4 has a chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, said space agency officials in the US and Europe, who have placed it at the top of impact risk lists.

INDEPENDENT - A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas ...

from Earth at a stable point in space called Lagrange Point 2. It was only when it fired its thrusters to move around when astronomers realized it wasn't an asteroid. "That's when people would go ...