Earlier this year, a roughly 200-foot near-Earth asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, made major headlines, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab warning that there was a small chance it could impact our planet on ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks can still be threatening, as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

In response, SASTIND posted recruitment listings on social media platform WeChat, seeking graduates with expertise in asteroid monitoring and early warning ... tested by NASA in 2022 on the ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

Applicants must be younger than 35 and “maintain a firm political stance” in line with the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, the job listing said.

NASA data released Tuesday said there is now a 3.1 percent chance a "city-destroying" asteroid could smash into Earth in 2032. The asteroid named 2024 YR4 is being carefully monitored by the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten media attention for its gradually growing chances of hitting the planet in 2032. Rising from 1% ...