The 500metre wide rock could throw 400million tonnes of dust into the atmosphere, dropping the Earth's temperature 4C ...
The incoming object created an impact basin and sent streams of rocks hurtling like missiles, NASA said. Within minutes, two ...
Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
An asteroid spotted in late December 2024 caught astronomers’ eyes and simulations to determine possible orbits indicate the object could strike Earth in 2032, but West Virginia University researchers ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.
New NASA observations show a near-Earth asteroid with more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth in seven years.
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...
New fossils provide clues How did wolves evolve into dogs? New fossils provide clues We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from We just learned where the asteroid that ended din ...