It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth ... according to the European Space Agency. The space rock is formally named 2024 YR4. Scientists say it currently carries a 2% risk of making ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ... as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that exploded over Russia and blew out people's windows in 2013 proved.

China has started assembling a planetary defence team to counter the threat of near-Earth asteroids following the discovery of a large asteroid that could strike our planet in seven years.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Any chance of more than one per cent that a rock more than 50-metres wide might hit the planet prompts a global network of experts to discuss the risk. The Christmas asteroid, known formally as ...

When American astronauts go back to the moon in the next few years, they'll be checking out two enormous canyons on the south pole, which researchers say were carved by an asteroid nearly four billion ...

Further observations ruled out an impact. The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs and ...

What's more is that the asteroid has no other dangers such as radioactivity, so the only risk is the impact of the rock itself measuring between 40 to 100 meters across, Niall said. He added ...

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The risk assessment has fluctuated since the asteroid’s discovery late last ... reduced to zero,” the agency added. The space rock in question is somewhere between 130 feet and 330 feet ...

(AP) - New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions ... The incoming space rock passed over the lunar south pole before hitting, creating a huge basin and sending ...