"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit ... Impact Hazard Scale, which is a system used to determine how big a threat an asteroid or comet is to planet Earth.

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably hit Earth in ... an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon’s south pole ...

If this space rock were to hit Earth ... Space Station hurtling around the Earth, Hadfield said. The shockwave radiating out from the impact would wipe out an area the size of a major city ...

Chris Hadfield compared the asteroid to "a bullet zeroing in on Earth from deep space" and warned of ... its size and potential impact are cause for concern. NASA estimates that the asteroid's ...

Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield compared Asteroid 2024 YR4 to 'a bullet zeroing in on Earth from deep space ... If this space rock were to hit Earth, it would create a blast equivalent ...

According to the European Space Agency ESA, it is on a collision course with Earth, where it could impact on December 22 ... that the cosmic chunk could hit the moon. This is the conclusion ...

Rankin calculated that it has a 0.3 per cent chance of sustaining a deep impact. Unlike the Earth, our natural satellite lacks an atmosphere to shield it, so YR4 would hit at around 48,280 km per ...

In less than eight years, an asteroid heading for Earth ... and Deep Impact. “Asteroid impacts are a genuine concern. We know that they can have quite destructive effects. If it were to hit ...

The French novelist anticipated Trump’s new, expansionist “Golden Age of America.” In French, the name “Verne” refers to ...

They were taken through the lens of the Gemini South Telescope - a powerful, 26-foot device in the Andes that specialises in staring deep ... and if it hits earth could produce an impact ...