A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 200 feet (60 meters), which is about the size of a 15 storey building. (Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. Knoll light factory. Adobe After ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This artistic rendition of an asteroid approaching Earth is exactly ...
At 950 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about the size of a typical stadium, or three football fields. The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about the ...
NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about 20,000 miles per hour, and projected to make a close pass by Earth. The object ...