Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...

Yes, astronomers point to asteroid 99942 Apophis, 1,099 feet wide and first identified in 2004. According to NASA officials, at the time of its initial sighting, Apophis was one of the most ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines lately ... The only other object to have outranked 2024 YR4 is one you may have heard about: 99942 Apophis. Its impact probability peaked at 2.7% ...

Astronomers assigned a similar 2.7 percent collision chance to asteroid 99942 Apophis in 2004, but it has since been discounted, with scientists convinced there is no major risk it could make ...

SOME astronomical events we see often, like shooting stars, but these are only a fraction of the dazzling celestial wonders occurring over the vast expanse of time. However, there are still four ...

The asteroid designated 2024 YR4 initially had ... the city-destroying space rock surpassing the threat once posed by 99942 Apophis, aka the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid. In Apophis’ case ...

Its risk of collision is above that of Asteroid 99942 Apophis, the "God of Chaos", which was discovered in 2004. This previously discovered space rock was given a 2.7 per cent chance of hitting ...

Astronomers assigned a similar 2.7% collision chance to asteroid 99942 Apophis in 2004, but it has since been discounted, with scientists convinced there is no major risk it could make impact in ...