Smithsonian Magazine3d
Astronomers Raise Odds of Asteroid Impact in 2032 to 2.3 Percent—Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic
The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...
Asteroid Impact Modeling Reveals a Chilling Future – and a Surprising Ocean Rebound
What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...
NASA Just Doubled the Odds of an Asteroid Impact – Should We Worry?
YR4 now has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, prompting ongoing observations. Ground-based telescopes will track it ...
CBS News2d
A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth. Here's what to know.
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 ...
Ars Technica3d
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
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 ...
The Independent3d
Asteroid impact would drastically change the world in ways we didn't even expect, scientists say
A medium-sized asteroid could bring dramatic changes to ... In the three or four years after the impact, in the most intense scenario, the sun would be dimmed and cool the surface by up to four ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Reuters4d
Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182
Well, it would not be pretty, according to new research based on computer simulations of an impact by an asteroid with a diameter of roughly three-tenths of a mile (500 meters) like Bennu.
Digital Trends11d
Asteroid with a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 spotted by astronomers
ESA-Science Office Astronomers have made a startling discovery: a medium-sized asteroid that could potentially impact the Earth within the next 10 years. However, experts agree that the public ...
Reuters6d
Asteroid impact on moon blasted two grand canyons in 10 minutes
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 ...
Yahoo News4d
New NASA imagery shows a large asteroid could impact Earth in 2032
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 ...
Gizmodo8d
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...