Around $83 billion in gold may lie buried underneath a Chinese gold reserve in what could be the largest high-quality gold ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

And both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have developed automated software programs that can, with extreme precision, track every single potentially hazardous asteroid and comet found to ...

news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn’t quite work out. “We blossomed three or four years too early for the big gold rush of ...

Asteroid hunter David Rankin, who Space.com says “precovered” the asteroid,” found it in data from Catalina Sky Survey. Rankin wasn’t surprised about the odds tipping against us but ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible, 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of impacting the moon.

experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies were able to calculate more precise models of the asteroid’s trajectory and now have found there is no ...

When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Whew. Earth has dodged an asteroid scare. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was looming large in humanity ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data ...

a 2021 study found. If the asteroid had missed Earth, it's likely that humans, at least as we know them, never would have existed. "History would have been totally different," Brusatte said.

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to ...