The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22 ... Ourense, Spain. (Image courtesy of Carlos Fernandez/Getty Images) The ESA further reported ...

28%. Those odds had been as high as 3.1%, the highest risk level ever recorded for a near-Earth object. This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system ...

NASA estimates that the space rock has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth in ... determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rose above the 2.7% ...

An image captured ... when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth in 2032. The chances of an ...