When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
Scientists say 3I/Atlas came closest to Mars in October. Its path this month put it in the path of the warm rays of our sun, ...
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A new study sized the asteroid at around 60 meters. Chances of it hitting the Moon may soon increase.
"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...
New research indicates that dinosaur populations in North America were thriving just before the asteroid impact 66 million ...
An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
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 ...
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