A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of impacting ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Space agencies are ...

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% ...

An asteroid large enough to flatten a city may be on track to crash into Earth on December 22, 2032, but the odds are very small, NASA announced Wednesday. "There should be no particular panic or ...

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan/AFP via Getty Images The asteroid was first observed on December 27, 2024, from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Stunning conjunction of Venus, crescent moon will be ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance it will hit our planet in the next eight years. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla ...