As dark moonless skies make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 possible, researchers are refining its orbit — and its ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off.
The odds keep growing that an asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will collide with Earth in seven years, according to ...
NASA researchers say an asteroid known as 2024 YR4 now has about a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, a decrease from a ...