Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22 ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...

will be to reach an undisclosed asteroid and "conduct a flyby, capturing data and 20-megapixel images as it seeks to confirm metallic riches", said Payload. If the spacecraft finds platinum-group ...

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 ...

A 2% chance of an asteroid strike is "uncommon," officials say. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

The mission comes in the wake of the company's first demo mission in April 2023, Brokkr-1, a $10 million mission that tested the technology for extracting and refining platinum from an asteroid ...

The odds of a recently discovered asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 have slightly increased, but one local scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said there’s no need to worry.

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... Germany analyzed samples of this rock layer—known to include traces of platinum-group metals that are otherwise rare on our planet.

What would happen if Earth were struck by another catastrophic asteroid? While such an event would be devastating, researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National ...