ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

YR4 were to strike Earth, the energy released could be equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT, capable of devastating an area the size of Washington, D.C ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.

A dramatic YouTube simulation created by 3D animation wizard ... The moon, unfortunately, could also be in the asteroid’s path; Rankin calculated that it has a 0.3% chance of sustaining a ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

NASA has repeatedly changed estimates on whether a huge Big Ben-sized asteroid first spotted last year will crash into Earth ...

Find out with this simulator Johnson said asteroids this size hit about every one thousand years, and an asteroid the size of a car hits Earth every year, usually over unpopulated areas like the ...

A new simulation of the asteroid's path also presents a slim possibility that it could hit the moon instead of Earth. Dr Rankin's calculations suggest that there is a one in 333 chance that 2024 ...