On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites.

The first satellite assembled at the factory, hailed as the first ever made by an African nation, was built mainly in China and launched from a spaceport there in December 2023. The Egyptian satellite ...

So while the odds have doubled, astronomers aren't too worried. When 2024 YR 4 had a risk of less than 1%, NASA's Planetary ...