Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

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“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

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A few months ago, the UN activated the Planetary Security Protocol due to the threat of the asteroid 2024 YR4, causing concern among the entire international leadership, as there w ...

Currently, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is too far away to observe with space or ground-based telescopes. NASA expects to make more ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...