Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

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

Estimates of the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 have gone down to near zero, but that doesn't mean Earth is safe.

What a difference 30 minutes made! Barry Evans (he/him, [email protected]) is reminded that the odds against his birth ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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But there is still a 1.7% chance that the asteroid could hit the moon on December 22 2032, according to Nasa. The world’s telescopes will continue to track the asteroid as it heads away from ...

Richard Moissl, head of the ESA's planetary defence office, told AFP that observing the asteroid - then ruling out a direct hit - was "a very exciting and educational exercise". Praising the early ...