The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

(NewsNation) — The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again, NASA says, but the chance of an actual impact is still quite slim.

This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system shows the motion of ... [+] asteroid 2024 YR4 over about one hour, Dec. 27, 2024. (ATLAS / University of Hawaii ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no immediate threat to Earth, easing initial concerns about a potential collision in 2032. Early calculations raised alarms, estimating a 3.1% impact ...