While the chances of an impact are low, additional observations could refine the orbit and change the odds one way or the ...
Fossilised remains belonging to the creature were discovered in 162-million-year-old rocks in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...
A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to fly much closer to our planet than the distance to the moon this Saturday.
The US organization is monitoring the body called 2023 DW that has a “very small chance” of colliding with our planet in 23 ...
Editor's note: This story was updated on March 17 with new information on the risk the asteroid poses as space agencies updated their probability of impact. We will continue to update the story as ...
The chance that a newly discovered asteroid will impact Earth have dropped significantly, and scientists say that they expect the likelihood of an impact to continue to drop in the coming days.
Initially given a slim but possible chance of a direct impact by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (opens in new tab), the threat posed by the asteroid generated a flurry of news ...
by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) operated by the University of Hawaii. ATLAS is the first to be able to scan the entire sky every 24 hours, enabling ...
For example, look at some of the recent asteroid impacts. In March 2022, asteroid 2022 EB5, half the size of a giraffe, impacted the Earth and caused no damage. The same thing happened when ...
