The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

He shared key facts about the asteroid with CBS News during the below conversation, which has been edited for clarity. When would the asteroid hit Earth? This asteroid passes us by every four years.

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The rocket's first stage will come back to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff, landing on a drone ship stationed in the ...

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, formally announced that it would cease its “fact-checking” operations, and allow the internet itself, through comments posted, to be the final arbiter of what is true ...

A Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early this morning (Feb. 15), rising ...

Learn about what threatens the wet, layered forest and what you can do to help. 2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and ...

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A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

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