One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December ...

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team after a giant “city-killer” asteroid was discovered hurtling towards Earth. The ...

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 swept into view of the asteroid warning system, called ATLAS, in December last year. Astronomers then calculated that the space lump will make a super close approach to Earth in 2032 ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

A newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of colliding with Earth in ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater. Tektites are natural glass formed when debris falls back to Earth after a ...

This can be seen first-hand with sites like the 66-million-year-old Chicxulub crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (thought to be the reason for mass dinosaur extinction) and the 50,000-year-old ...

Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid ... If it hit on the land, it would carve out a new impact crater, probably more than a kilometre across and a couple of hundred metres ...

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, is estimated to be 58 metres wide and could cause an explosion in the atmosphere or an impact crater on the ... go stale with new observations and better orbit calculations.” ...