CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team to join the US and Europe in bracing for an evermore likely “city-killer” ...

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A Chinese defence agency is recruiting space researchers following the discovery of a large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent ...

NASA has a Moon collision down in their future estimates and hasn’t ruled out the potential for it hitting Earth ...

There's a slim chance a sizeable asteroid could collide with our planet in 2032, and it's fair to wonder why the powers that ...

Now, NASA has detected an airplane-sized asteroid, 2025 CL3, that is set to make a close approach to our planet tomorrow, ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

Near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, has scientists worried about a disastrous impact that could spark an "impact winter." ...

YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.

At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was discovered in the last half of December, and R4 since it was the 117th rock to be ...

YR4 has a 2.2% chance of striking Earth in seven years, but recent updates keep pushing the odds in the wrong direction.