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Create Account The asteroid could come within 106,200 kilometres of earth in December 2032, according to a database in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space.com reported. Given the “orbital ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid ...

The chances of Earth being hit by an asteroid in 2032 have roughly doubled – though we are almost certainly fine. On 22 ...

“Shortly after its discovery, automated asteroid warning systems determined that the object had a very small chance of potentially impacting Earth on 22 December 2032,” the European Space Agen ...

Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot large space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, researchers say. Discovered last Christmas by Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, the ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance it will hit our planet in the next eight years. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News.