"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to less than 1 per cent.

David Rankin, an engineer at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey Project, has worked out the "impact risk corridor" of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, based on its current path. Article continues ...

Asteroid Bennu still a concern ... The asteroid's predicted path crosses over eight major cities, including Bogotá, Lagos, Mumbai, and Chennai, putting roughly 110 million people at risk.

which adjusted its speed and path, according to NASA. “It’s on an orbit just like Earth and it will stay on that orbit unless it is gravitational perturbed and that will happen in 2028 and we ...

“I think it shows that the early steps toward the path to life were occurring much ... Calculations of Bennu’s orbit show very low risk of such an impact for the next couple of centuries.

Experts predict an asteroid's chance of impact by mapping out all possible paths based on its current ... smaller than the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu, which experts have given a less than ...