Pop culture is rife with depictions of asteroids on a collision course with Earth. The idea of a celestial body heading right ...
UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European ...
The Volgograd refinery processes nearly 6% of all oil in Russia, while the Astrakhan facility is one of the country’s major ...
The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
Nasa says the asteroid is capable of 'localised destruction, though the chances of it hitting Earth are liable to reduce.