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 ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

NASA and ESA are monitoring the situation closely. The asteroid's possible impact could release energy 500 times stronger than an atomic bomb. Updated projections are expected soon to determine ...

When was the last time an asteroid had similar odds of hitting Earth? This is only the second time that impact prediction systems have rated any asteroid with an impact probability of more than 1%.

A crater two kilometres across would also be formed on the lunar surface due to the asteroid's impact. The asteroid was first spotted in late December by scientists at the NASA-funded Asteroid ...

(AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.

The most infamous asteroid impact, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula around 66 million years ago, created the Chicxulub crater and is widely believed to have triggered the mass extinction that ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on December 27. The telescope is one of the asteroid discovery programs ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has a 97.9% chance to safely pass the Earth in 2032, as per NASA scientists, who indicated that there is a 2.1% chance that it may have any impact. However ...