A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...

Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.

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The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

Scientists say ‘city-killer’ asteroid on potential collision course with Moon - Asteroid 2024 YR4 was initially estimated to ...

About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, along with around 70% of all ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused global concern after ... Estimates suggested the collision could shatter structures as far as 80km from the impact zone. Subsequent observations of the rock reduced ...

If it were to hit the earth, it would unleash a deadly blast over 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on ...