NASA is monitoring a large asteroid, 2014 TN17, which will pass Earth at a safe distance of about 3 million miles. The ...

TN17 will safely pass Earth this time, NASA's warning serves as a reminder of the lurking dangers in space. Scientists and ...

NASA is closely monitoring Asteroid 2014 TN17 due to its size and tremendous speed, as these kinds of space rocks are ...

Asteroid 2014 TN17, a massive 540-foot space ... This indicates the level of concern there is towards constant monitoring and early warning in order to knock out any potential threats.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

Panic over: the ‘city killer’ asteroid at risk of slamming into Earth like a grenade is now overwhelmingly likely to pass on by. The latest calculation from Nasa shows it only has a 0.0027% chance of ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

It's easy to get used to these asteroid warnings. However, it's a bad idea to ignore the threat they pose. 2024 YR4 is not very large, only between 40 to 90 meters (130 to 300 feet) in diameter.

But during a February 4 meeting of the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), NASA experts submitted projections that 'reveal how seriously the agency was taking the threat,' The Telegraph ...