A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon however, may not be in the clear.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

"When we first discover an asteroid, we just see it as this point of light that is moving across ... Should We Be Worried About The Asteroid Hitting Earth? Currently, YR4 is hurtling through ...

Compared to moons or planets, they don’t reflect much light, but it varies based on ... s orbit will change so that it will not hit the Earth.” That could leave astronomers with only the ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now ... observing the asteroid based on the amount of visible light it reflects from the sun, with brighter light ...

That beam of light shrinks as we get to know its orbit ... Hit it too softly, and it will still hit Earth, but somewhere that wasn’t originally going to be hit. You have to be super careful ...

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth comes in the way of the sun’s light hitting the moon while a solar eclipse happens when the moon comes in between the sun and casts its shadow on Earth.

Early risers on Friday will be treated to the spectacle of the moon turning blood red as it drops towards the horizon. The ...