That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely. According to NASA, the odds of a collision are just 2.3%. But that nearly ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Though that number’s rising, experts say further research could bring it to zero Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent Last week, NASA reported that a newly identified asteroid has a more than 1 ...

one of the most well-known example is the asteroid impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. Possibility of a collision from an asteroid remains an evergreen ...

Still the chances of it striking Earth are minimal and it would not cause a mass extinction as happened 66m years ago when an asteroid led to an end of the dinosaurs as that was up to 15 ...

Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on ...

The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid smashing into the Earth on December 22, 2032 appear to have ticked up slightly. NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide space ...