It's very rare that planetary geologists can tell whether it was an asteroid or comet that hit. One of the most famous of ...

Every newly discovered asteroid is just a point of light until measurements determine its size and, more importantly, where it's going ...

The risk of the asteroid hitting Earth has fallen from 3 per cent to 0.002 per cent in a matter of days, but if the chance ...

For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit off the coast of Mexico's ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Not even close. That asteroid, called the Chicxulub impactor, hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico 66 million years ago. It’s estimated to have been 10 kilometres wide — bigger ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried ... material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion ...

A CHILLING simulation video has revealed the devastating impact a 'city-killer' asteroid would have if it hit Earth ... crashed into the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The devastation was planet ...