So we're all hoping that doesn't happen." Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate ...

Applicants must be younger than 35 and “maintain a firm political stance” in line with the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, the job listing said.

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...

That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid will safely zip ... of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.

As more data is collected, the uncertainty about an asteroid’s trajectory is reduced, so scientists can more accurately predict its orbit and whether it threatens Earth. With asteroids ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

which is unusual for a small asteroid that is only 130 to 300 feet wide. By Wednesday, that impact assessment dropped to 1.5%. “But the impact probability remains small, so people should not ...

But after further research, scientists have determined the asteroid now only at a 0.001% chance. Johnson says the Earth is in a region of uncertainty, so there was initially a chance of the ...

NASA scientists previously estimated that the odds of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 could rise to 20 percent, but the agency never told the public. A statistical analysis ...

Young, ambitious startups are seeking to achieve what governments alone have done so far — and do it far more cheaply in the process. But with asteroid mining, no company has yet accomplished ...

which is unusual for a small asteroid that is only 130 to 300 feet wide. By Wednesday, that impact assessment dropped to 1.5%. "But the impact probability remains small, so people should not ...