The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen slightly and, while it is unlikely to happen, it is still ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is ... A medium-sized asteroid could bring dramatic changes to the Earth – in unexpected ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand ... rather than leaving a crater on the ground. "We can calculate the energy... using the mass and the speed," said Andrew ...

A telescope in Chile—part of one such NASA-funded facility, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ... It got very faint very quickly, so most ground-based telescopes struggled ...

If deflection is not an option, the next one might be to explore “evacuation measures on the ground” in the predicted impact region, Farnocchia says. If the asteroid’s threat doesn’t ...

While the identification has triggered international planetary defense measures, experts say that further observations of the asteroid might drop the impact probability down to zero.

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130 to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% chance of ...

This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy ... in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting asteroid or comet ...

What will happen if the asteroid is on a collision course? If the asteroid is bigger than 50 metres, the ESA will debate sending a space mission to intercept it, according to Cano. "We have two ...