According to estimates, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, had the highest chance of any asteroid to hit Earth in modern history.

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

NASA has officially upgraded the likelihood of Earth being hit by asteroid 2024 YR4. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, or CNEOS, now lists the chance of a collision in 2032 at 3.1 per cent, ...

(CNN) — His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized ... We are aware of a recent example in history where this has happened. It was 1908 in Siberia. There was an event where 2,000 square kilometers ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious ...

But it’s no coincidence that Tunguska, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history, struck an unpopulated area; that describes most of Earth, especially given that over 70 percent of the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a path toward Earth ... “Probably the nearest parallel we have in kind of recorded history would be the Tunguska event rather in 1908,” said Dr Richard J.

Researchers uncover the oldest asteroid crater in Australia, revealing its role in shaping Earth’s ancient climate.

The probe, known as Odin, is set to travel into deep space to make a pass by of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 to detect if it has the potential to be mined for minerals ...