By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

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

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

Specifically, this monitoring has led to asteroid 2024 YR4 gaining international fame, as since news broke of its minimal chance of colliding with Earth in 2032, it has been making headlines ...

AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready ... “If this works out, this will probably be the biggest business ever conceived of,” said Matt ...

The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city ... This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received, after the 2.7 per cent chance of Apophis hitting in 2004.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island: Don’t blame the astronomers for the ever-changing odds that an ... so a low probability risk of impact with a big asteroid might rate the same as a higher probability ...

When Yuletide rolls around in 2032, you might not want to make any big plans ... one of the highest ever recorded risks of an asteroid collision. A one-in-48 risk may not sound terribly worrying ...

Nasa is also training the biggest telescope ever made on the asteroid in an attempt to better understand its trajectory, size and composition. “Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope will observe ...

That’s the highest chance ever given to any asteroid of its size or larger ... and the object is big enough to cause a planet-wide disaster – over 1 km (0.6 miles) wide.

But just two days ago, the odds had grown to 3.1 percent, setting a record for the highest probability for any asteroid of its size ever tracked ... that Tunguska, the largest asteroid impact ...