YR4 could strike Earth in 2032. Its size ranges from 40 to 90 meters. The asteroid could cause significant damage, especially to populated areas. The impact probability has decreased recently. NASA ...

University of Ferrerra researchers reported on the evolution of European skin, eye and hair pigmentation over the last 45,000 ...

An asteroid which has a one in 32 chance of hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a city has been caught on camera.

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

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The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Some calculations say the explosion was 185 to 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that razed Hiroshima. Despite ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched in the coming months from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China National ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

Since early January, Chinese scientists have been continuously observing an asteroid that has a small chance of colliding ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...