The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

That was a true asteroid impact over a populated area. It was a really small object, as these things go, but it still caused ...

But astronomers now say that that science is telling them the asteroid will most likely miss Earth. But our planet is not ...

Webb's final snapshot of asteroid 2024 YR4 fine-tuned its orbit—raising Moon impact odds slightly, but Earth is safe.

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4.

"After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ecological recovery process that is quite different from that of the global ocean, as continuous hydrothermal activity has created a ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the ...

Impacts by objects around 460 feet (140 meters wide) in diameter occur every 10,000 to 20,000 years. A "dinosaur-killing" impact from a rock perhaps a half-mile across or larger happens on 100 ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

For comparison, they also analyzed samples from five other asteroid impacts from the last 541 million years, samples from ancient Archaean-age (3.5 – 3.2 billion-years-old) impact-related ...