In a Groundbreaking Discovery NASA Scientists Can Now Track Asteroid and Meteor Strikes on Earth Better Space enthusiasts and ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit ...

Now scientists reveal they used kilometers of fiber optics to analyze shockwaves from a NASA spacecraft returning to Earth, ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over ... it’s more accurate to use numbers to describe small sample sizes because using percentages can create misleading ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — The spacecraft for China’s Tianwen-2 combined near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has arrived at Xichang spaceport for launch preparations.

Scientists will monitor it through April and then again in June 2028, when it returns to Earth's vicinity. As scientists continue studying the asteroid's trajectory and better understand its orbit ...

Current estimates of the asteroid’s orbit suggest it returns to Earth’s vicinity every four years, but it won’t pose a threat in 2028, according to the University of Hawaii. Understanding ...