To find out more Mark Leishman speaks to astronomer and former superintendent of the Mt John Observatory in Canterbury Alan ...

NASA calculates a 2.3% chance of the asteroid, over 50 meters in size, impacting our planet. The Space Agency and NASA have recalculated their predictions, and the chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

近日，一颗名为“2024 YR4”的小行星受到关注。据观测计算，它在2032年撞击地球的概率为1.6%，这是科学家发现的首颗已知与地球相撞概率超过1%的大尺寸小行星。据报道，联合国首次启动《行星安全协议》，以应对可能发生的威胁。

就在国家国防科技工业局重大专项工程中心招聘“行星防御岗”员工一事引起社会广泛关注的时候，据多家媒体报道，联合国首次启动了《行星安全协议》，以应对一颗可能在7年后撞击地球的小行星。这一消息让大众对行星防御相关话题的讨论更加热烈起来。

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 swept into view of the asteroid warning system, called ATLAS, in December last year. Astronomers then calculated that the space lump will make a super close approach to Earth in 2032 ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...

Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most ...

SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth.

The fear of a collision between Earth and a meteorite is growing. The European Space Agency (ESA), in constant collaboration with the US agency (NASA), is still trying to gather as ...

近日，全球科学界的目光再次聚焦于一颗可能给地球带来威胁的小行星——2024 YR4。这颗直径大约100米的小行星，由于其潜在的撞击风险，正受到全球空间防御机构的广泛关注。据科学家们评估，尽管撞击的可能性相对较小，但这一威胁已经足以引发高度重视。 起初 ...