Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid will safely zip by Earth in seven years, according to NASA. The agency also shared that the new ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years are now so low, they may as well be zero. The space rock between 130 and 300 feet long has caused quite a stir since ...
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
This marks a remarkable course correction ... “While this asteroid no longer poses a significant impact hazard to Earth, 2024 YR4 provided an invaluable opportunity” for study, NASA said ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million ...