A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
The pillars are each a staggering 4-5 light-years in ... largest telescope (photos) Tuesday, February 4, 2025: Hubble definitely hit the target with this one. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...
Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...
By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...
YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...
The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...
The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...