Scientists are on a mission to study an asteroid larger than the Eiffel Tower which is on course to skim the Earth. The ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger ...

This scenario imagining Earth being hit by a sizeable asteroid isn’t purely a morbid thought exercise. In five years time, one wider than the 330-metre Eiffel Tower will pass closer to us than ...

The asteroid ... 755 feet - larger than the Golden Gate Bridge tower or more than twice the height of London's Big Ben - that is currently heading towards Earth and is expected to skim past ...

Simulations of a massive asteroid, as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall, suggest Earth could face catastrophic ... While far smaller than the six-mile-wide asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs ...

YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...

To illustrate, the height of the Empire State Building in New York is about 1,250 feet, whereas the Eiffel Tower is about 1,060 ... warrants attention (just like this asteroid which hit Earth and was ...

NASA is tracking the path of an asteroid that is set to shoot past Earth going 35,000 miles per hour, 10 times faster than a speeding ... orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos, both of which ...

While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this visit, there is a miniscule chance it could hit us when it returns in 2026. This big space rock is much larger than almost ...

Astronomers in 2004, discovered an asteroid as big as the Eiffel Tower is tall that is set to fly within 32,000km from the Earth. That is closer than some satellites orbiting the Earth right now.

However, Apollo asteroids are a class of objects (named for asteroid 1862 Apollo), which have an orbit that is larger than Earth’s orbit around the Sun and their path crosses Earth’s path.

Simulations of a massive asteroid, as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall, suggest Earth could face catastrophic consequences ... across. While far smaller than the six-mile-wide asteroid that wiped out ...