The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

How is anyone expected to get any work done in the next seven years worrying about all this? The asteroid will be tracked through April and then again in June 2028, when it returns to our vicinity, ...

Earlier this year, a roughly 200-foot near-Earth asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, made major headlines, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab warning that ... In September 2022, NASA smashed its Double ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says ... the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a ...

Should the asteroid hit, it would be far from ... mission such as that pulled off by NASA’s DART in 2022 typically takes three to five years to put together, so the case for at least beginning ...

To NASA’s credit, defenses have significantly improved in recent years. The agency has created ... Most spectacularly, in 2022, its Double Asteroid Redirection Test smashed a spacecraft into ...

Asteroids of this size have an impact on Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause ... via email. Automated asteroid warning systems sent out an alarm after determining the asteroid ...

Maybe you've heard about the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The impact caused ... according to the International Asteroid Warning Network ― yes, that's a thing ...

2024 YR4 was first detected on December 27 last year by the El Sauce Observatory ... rather than being a rare metal-rich asteroid. The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a worldwide ...