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

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

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

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

For example, an asteroid estimated at 10 to 15km wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit off the ... asteroid the size of Bennu - with a diameter of roughly 500m - strikes Earth.

For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit off the coast ... if an asteroid the size of Bennu - with a diameter of roughly three-tenths of a mile ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years ... there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific Ocean ...

If Bennu did hit Earth, it would trigger an explosion equivalent to 1.4 billion tons of TNT. Not only could the 500-metre-wide rock threaten millions of lives, but a recent study predicted that ...

At the end of last year, astronomers detected *** new asteroid named 2024 YR4, but it wasn't like other solar system travelers. That's because this one passed rather closely and after initial ...