VIDEO: Scientists are tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA, discovered the existence of an asteroid known as 2024 YR4.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2024 annual report Thursday examining the ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO and chief scientist at Space Environment Technologies, is ...

Today, it's 420 ppm. But there are likely other influences on 2024's temperature rise, too. NASA noted that a particularly strong El Niño — a natural climate fluctuation — that began in fall ...

The new discovery was made by NASA's CIRBE satellite, a CubeSat about the size of a shoebox that circled the planet's magnetic poles in a low Earth orbit from April 2023 to October 2024.

NASA caught images from the comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), making its closest pass to the sun on Jan. 13, NASA said, “Soaring a mere 9% the average Earth-sun distance from our star.” Scientists are ...

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An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

18 and Oct. 17, 2024, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory found. MORE: Landslides are among the hazards emerging as LA-area wildfires scar terrain The landslide both expanded and accelerated last ...