What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid nearly as big as the Statue of Liberty will smash into the Earth in 2032.
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
A freshly spotted asteroid that is up to 300ft wide detected by an automated telescope in December has a small chance of ...
It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact ...
were dug out in a matter of less than 10 minutes by rocky debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface roughly 3.8 billion years ago. This impact unleashed about ...
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130 to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% chance of ...