THE odds of a “city killer” asteroid that once threatened Earth instead smashing into the moon have just doubled. YR4 was ...

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

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

Further observations by the James Webb Space Telescope successfully measured the asteroid’s thermal emission. According to ...

As technology advances, so does our ability to track celestial bodies that could pose a threat to our planet. In this vein, the asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed the 'City Killer,' has garnered notice due to ...

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

which revealed its impact zone and risk corridor, showing it could have wiped out a number of major cities. Thankfully, the asteroid has been ruled out as a danger to Earth, with the European ...

Languages: English. The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged a three-mile-long trough in the ground and buckled local rocks has been revealed in a NASA satellite image. Estimated to have ...

“At this writing, a 2032 impact with the Moon has not been ruled out,” astronomers, including Andy Rivkin from Johns Hopkins University, write in a new study. Images of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

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 ...

THE enormous asteroid that scientists initially feared could strike Earth is now on course to potentially crash into the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an alarmingly ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...