Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

On a spring day some 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid smashed down just north of what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This sudden impact created tsunamis stretching one mile ...

which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid that 65 million years ago caused the extinction of not only the dinosaurs but 75% of Earth’s species, according to NASA. Today ...

A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest ...

Today, an asteroid larger than ... to be between 10 and 15km wide.’ What are asteroids? And what is 887 Alinda? Asteroids, sometimes as small as six feet or as large as mountains, are craggy ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid impact in modern Mexico produced 1 million times more energy than an atomic bomb. According to The Guardian, fossil records from as far as Japan, Europe, and New Zealand are ...

An asteroid of that size isn’t big enough to threaten life on Earth, like the 6-mile-wide asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, but its impact would be enough to cause millions of deaths if it ...

"The really big ones, like the 10km (6.21 mile) [wide] or so asteroid that we think led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, happen maybe once every 100 million years." The asteroid 2024 YR4 ...