Space stations around the world are urgently collaborating to tackle the threat of a vast asteroid, hurtling towards Earth.

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NASA has a Moon collision down in their future estimates and hasn’t ruled out the potential for it hitting Earth ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

Space agencies have been granted permission to use a giant telescope to assess the potential impact of a "city-killer" ...

"One advantage of the shallow entry, slow velocity atmospheric path model is that by the time the meteoroid is close to ...

A newly discovered asteroid being tracked by the global science community has a nearly 98% chance of zooming by Earth without touching our atmosphere. However, if Asteroid 2024 YR4 does hit Earth, ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

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The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

YR4 has a 2.2% chance of striking Earth in seven years, but recent updates keep pushing the odds in the wrong direction.

Scientists say they expect the asteroid's future trajectory and impact probability to change as astronomers collect and ...