The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid that acts like a comet.

Bennu is a so-called medium-sized asteroid with a diameter of around 500 m. This type of asteroid is more likely to impact Earth than the “planet killer” larger asteroids, but has been studied far ...

The asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — is orbiting on a path that will bring it close to Earth in 2032, with scientists previously calculating impact probability at around three per cent, the ...

Aside from the immediate devastation, the researchers estimated that an impact by a Bennu-sized asteroid would inject 100-400 million tons of dust into the atmosphere, causing disruptions in ...

After asteroid 2024 YR4 first flew into view of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in December 2024, experts gave it a 1.2 per cent – or one-in-83 – chance of ...

Study models asteroid collision’s potentially devastating impact An “impact winter” would cool much of Earth and disrupt photosynthesis on land and in the water. February 16, 2025 ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) --NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency are among ...

According to NASA Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big enough to cause "localized damage in the unlikely event that it should impact Earth." While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact ...

If an asteroid of this size were to strike, the damage would go far beyond the initial impact zone, triggering worldwide disruptions that could last for years. Simulating an asteroid impact. To ...

NASA is using its most powerful space telescope to study the true size of the "city-killer" asteroid that has a one-in-43 chance of striking Earth in 2032. Last week, experts bumped up the odds of ...