Artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago ...

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 ...

2024 YR4 is only the second asteroid whose impact risk has reached greater than a 1% chance. The other is asteroid 99942, better known as “Apophis” — named after the Egyptian god of chaos ...

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 ...

The detection on December 27 came from one of a network of telescopes managed by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a NASA-funded project to provide warning of asteroids on ...

To put that probability into perspective, it is similar to flipping a coin 11 times and getting the same outcome every time. While such a scenario remains unlikely, the potential consequences are ...

To determine the potential impacts of an asteroid strike on our climate system and on terrestrial plants and plankton in the ocean, researchers from the ICCP set out to simulate an idealized ...

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

"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 ...

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

were dug out in a matter of less than 10 minutes by rocky debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface roughly 3.8 billion years ago. This impact unleashed about ...