Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy of the current global inventory of nuclear weapons. Read more at ...

New research indicates that these canyons, in an area called the Schrödinger impact ... Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting asteroid or comet hit the lunar ...

"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.

Meanwhile, it is also unknown whether this asteroid will pound on Earth or miss the Earth by a mile. At any rate, the probability of an impact is low, but if it were to hit Earth in 2032 ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth ... The odds of this impact happening are arguably higher than 2024 YR4’s chances of hitting Earth, but Patrick ...

if it did hit Earth, it would be much more likely to impact the ocean than a city, he said. “And in the deep ocean, an impact would have no severe consequences either.” Though astronomers say ...