Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...
Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.
When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...
That day is the center of “Impact: The End of the Age of the Dinosaurs,” a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. “There’s no doubt — well, arguably at least — that ...
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened a new exhibition that takes a multidisciplinary ...
Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide ...
What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...
About the extinction of the dinosaurs, there are different theories. However, the most accredited is that their end was ...
NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...