NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

But scientists revised that assessment after a precise analysis of the asteroid’s orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar forecasting trends with 2024 YR4, which currently sits at a ...

While YR4's impact odds have unseated Apophis, the larger asteroid still briefly hit a higher rating of 4 on the Torino Scale. A radar observation campaign in March 2021 during a distant flyby ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

THE massive asteroid YR4 now has a greater chance of ... which is orbiting the Sun after being launched from Earth in 2021. Lewis said: “[The James Webb observations] will help us determine ...

it became more hazardous than the head-turning asteroid Apophis, which was one of the most hazardous asteroids when discovered in 2004, but was found in 2021 to not be at risk of hitting Earth for ...

a 2021 study found. If the asteroid had missed Earth, it's likely that humans, at least as we know them, never would have existed. "History would have been totally different," Brusatte said.

But scientists revised that assessment after a precise analysis of the asteroid's orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar forecasting trends with 2024 YR4, which currently sits at a 3 ...