Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Asteroid 2013 FW13 is expected to pass by Earth ... according to a 2023 paper published in Icarus. September’s full ...

A chunk of rock less than a mile in diameter, Icarus comes closer to the sun and the earth than any other asteroid whose orbit has been accurately computed. It should miss us by four million miles ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been manageable, but a massive super-Earth could have made our planet uninhabitable ...

More information: Jacob A. Kegerreis et al, Origin of Mars's moons by disruptive partial capture of an asteroid, Icarus (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116337 ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...