Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by ...

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

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

In January this year, the ESA calculated the rock's trajectory and initially predicted that there was a 1.2% chance of impact ... from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

Bennu is a so-called medium-sized asteroid with a diameter of around 500 m. This type of asteroid is more likely to impact Earth than the “planet killer” larger asteroids, but has been studied far ...

While an interesting and perhaps important find, demonstrating the effect of such a giant asteroid impact on the Earth, more study is needed to figure out the exact mechanism that caused these ...

In February, the possibility of death from above was worldwide news when scientists revealed that a recently discovered asteroid had a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032. After refining the data ...

Study opens new doors for studying how meteorite impacts might have influenced Earth. In Western Australia, researchers have made a significant discovery: they have found the oldest meteorite ...

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