An asteroid with a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting us could cause ... tons of dust are injected into the atmosphere following a collision. Results show that this "impact winter" could cause global ...

Scientists have raised the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032. Here’s what that means and how we might prevent disaster.

Significant stories Isaac works on are humankind's race for commercially viable fusion technology, the ways AI technologies ... A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what ...

YR4 now has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, prompting ongoing observations. Ground-based telescopes will track it ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The detection on December 27 came from one of a network of telescopes managed by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a NASA-funded project to provide warning of asteroids on ...

This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy ... in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting asteroid or comet ...

Using the IBS supercomputer Aleph, the researchers ran several dust impact scenarios for a Bennu-type asteroid collision with Earth. In response to dust injections of 100–400 million tons ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% 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 ...