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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after another space rock. It remains the biggest cosmic haul ...

“Shortly after its discovery, automated asteroid warning systems determined that the object had a very small chance of potentially impacting Earth on 22 December 2032,” the European Space Agen ...

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss," said Paul Chodas, director of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention.” ...