Astronomers have been given access to the James Webb Space Telescope to assess the threat posed by asteroid 2024 YR4, which ...

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Astronomers will have more information later this spring about the asteroid's path and its likelihood of hitting Earth.

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

A Chinese defence agency is recruiting space researchers following the discovery of a large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent ...

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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

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

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

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What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...