According to NASA, it is uncommon for an asteroid to be rated a 3, because that can only happen for asteroids larger than 65 feet with an impact probability of 1% or greater, which is considered ...

By comparison, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and 70% of all other animal species on Earth around 65 million years ago was roughly 6 to 9 miles wide. Other notable impact events include ...

A collision with a medium-size asteroid could create widespread ... North America and northern South America. This “impact winter,” the researchers write, would disrupt photosynthesis ...

Advertisement NASA scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope give the asteroid a slightly lower chance of impacting Earth, CBS News reported, but the chance of impact makes it the most ...