NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

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In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, in operation for a few months now, uncovered light coming from a ...

The United States continues to be the most likely country in which to get bitten by a shark, according to the annual ...

The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...

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