The Pampanga and Paitan meteorites have officially returned to the Philippines. At an unveiling event on Saturday in a Pasig City mall, the Philippine Meteorite Repatriation Team, in collaboration ...

NASA and ESA are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially had a higher collision probability with Earth than the Apophis asteroid. New data has since lowered the impact risk to 1.5% ...

Astronomers are monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4, detected in December 2024, with an estimated 1.5% chance of impacting Earth on December 22, 2032. The asteroid, size 130-300 feet, could affect cities ...

It was only a few days ago that a certain fear-mongering website named, ahem, Ars Technica published an article about the prospect of a killer asteroid striking the planet Earth in the year 2032.

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch ...

The Philippine Meteorite Repatriation Team on Saturday unveiled specimens Paitan and Pampanga, two of seven local meteorites officially recognized by The Meteoritical Society. The team obtained ...

Earthlings can keep their plans seven years from now after scientists have officially declared Asteroid 2024 YR4 is not a threat to our planet. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 by the ...

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...

NASA has given a major update on the 'city-killing' asteroid which has been hurtling towards Earth – and it finally makes for pleasant reading. After months of increasing odds, the space ...

The chances of a recently spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 crashing into Earth have fallen to 0.001 percent, according to the European Space Agency. The 300ft wide asteroid, which was detected by an ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

Meteorite Contains Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars 742 Million Years Ago Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space.