Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

For the first time a giant asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedure, after its revealed there is a chance, ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 as it heads towards Earth. Should we be worried about it? Here's what ...

The chances of an asteroid that could be up to 300ft (100m) wide hitting Earth in 2032 have almost doubled after new telescope scans, an expert told Yahoo News. The European Space Agency (ESA) has ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

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Pic: ESA Speaking to Sky News' Kay Burley ... but experts only have a "couple of months" to observe the asteroid before it disappears out of sight until 2028. He said: "And that's the time ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed it is closely monitoring an asteroid the size of a football pitch that could hit the Earth in a little over seven years. The asteroid, called 2024 YR4 ...