Palmer Park Mall, at Route 248 and Park Avenue in Palmer Township, in recent weeks welcomed its newest restaurant.

A space rock dubbed 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2.3% chance of smashing into our planet, NASA scientists announced.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ...

Here is a look at the 2024 YR4, how much destruction it can cause if it crashes into Earth, how often asteroids crash into Earth, and how space agencies are trying to deal with such situations. The ...

The table is basically an automated monitoring system that recalculates the impact possibilities of asteroids close-by to Earth over the next 100 years. Currently, according to CNEOS, the asteroid ...

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The latter of these two scenarios is called a meteor shower, which can be easily observed with the naked eye in the right conditions. Here are some key definitions that will help you understand what ...

ATLAS promptly reported the asteroid to the Minor Planet Center, a clearing house for the positional measurements of small bodies like asteroids and comets. The asteroid measures between 130 and ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet (40 and 100 meters) wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions ...

Five asteroids are expected to make close approaches to Earth this weekend. A large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth within the next decade that there's a chance it could strike the ...

Nuclear warheads could be flown into asteroids bigger than 1km across to save Earth, experts say, but these are exceptionally rare. A rock this big is expected to hit our planet once every 700,000 ...

"The fact that we're seeing something around a decade into the future shows the improved technology that's been deployed to watch for these asteroids." SEE ALSO: What will happen when the next ...