With a width of around 100 metres, the asteroid could cause city-scale catastrophic damage. NASA estimates the rock weighs ...
The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, now has a higher chance of smashing into our home planet in 2032, according to NASA.
The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...
The asteroid was first detected on 27 December by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, part of NEO detection programme ...
A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...
Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 40 to 90 metres wide, a "size range comparable to that of a large building," Dr Paul Chodas, manager for the Centre for Near-Earth ...
In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and destroyed ...
The possibility of a recently-discovered asteroid striking Earth has doubled within the past several weeks, according to NASA ...
On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of buildings, and almost 1,500 people were injured by broken ...
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