Astronomers have discovered six mysterious asteroids hiding near Venus—and three of them might pose a serious risk to Earth ...

In a new study using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a hidden population of tiny asteroids in our solar system. These objects might be a more significant threat than we ever ...

2024 YR4’s threat was no exercise ... Astronomers have, to date, found about 16,000 asteroids roughly the size of this one in near-Earth orbits around the sun—a seemingly impressive figure ...

Traveling at 28,300 kilometers per hour, it poses no immediate threat. However ... as the asteroid could be phenomenally destructive if it ever were to hit the planet. Even though no collision ...

The number has since dropped to near zero, but this news was a real-life Don’t Look Up moment, and a stark reminder of the threat that ... are countless numbers of asteroids and an unknown ...

Could a large-enough asteroid ever pose a genuine extinction threat? And beyond space ... coupled with the already low risk, means asteroids wiping out the planet is not a major concern for ...

It is the most significant impact threat ever recorded by available asteroid ... had already brought risks down to zero for other asteroids. NASA releases potential impact zones of asteroid ...

It briefly carried a 2.7% chance of impacting Earth in 2029, a threat that was later eliminated ... of causing significant destruction. Its destructive potential lies less in its size and more ...

Ars: What are we learning about the asteroid's destructive potential ... are we still waiting for that might clarify the threat? Andrews: Most telescopes will lose sight of this "small" asteroid ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 ... The kinetic energy of an asteroid is a proxy for how destructive its impact would be. And as asteroids mostly move at the same speed — about 38,000 ...

New Delhi: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence’s 2021 apocalyptic film Don’t Look Up has a 2.3 percent chance of becoming real. NASA’s Asteroid Watch has warned the world about a ‘city-killer’ ...

A UK volcanologist, Dr Robin George Andrews, has raised concerns about the looming threat of asteroid 2024 ... The challenges of deflecting asteroids While there have been successful attempts ...