The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim. New ...

Scientists will be able to get another look at the asteroid then, Harwood said, and determine its orbit and trajectory. Betts said, "The odds are very good that not only will this not hit Earth ...

MORE: There's a small chance an asteroid could hit Earth within the next decade ... of the orbit takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth's vicinity before it ventures far out between ...

An asteroid ... Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the ESA said a previous statement about 2024 YR4. If the asteroid does hit the planet ...

31, the asteroid is 30 million miles from Earth and moving farther away on its orbital path around the sun. There’s a more ... What can happen when as asteroid hits Earth? Scientists are ...

A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention ... as it continues on its orbit around the sun. It won’t return to Earth’s vicinity until 2028, Farnocchia said.

A blinding flash nearly as bright as the sun. Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field ...

The asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, may hit Earth just before Christmas on December 22 ... and it takes 4.05 years to orbit the sun. Because of this threat, a global defence plan has been launched by The ...

But the world's space agencies have now made a rare emergency decision as the chances of Earth being hit by ... how the asteroid's temperature has changed due to its time near the sun and further ...

Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), whose orbit keeps it within 1.3 astronomical units of the Sun. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million ...