In the case of Apophis, further observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when the asteroid makes a close flyby to Earth in 2029 and again in ...
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...
On Christmas Day itself, an even larger asteroid named 2021 BA2 will make a remarkably close pass of Earth. Based on its brightness, ESA estimates that this space rock could be between 30 to 70 ...