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 ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology ... the impact would likely cause a crater, because it would be a direct hit.

Since early January, astronomers have used the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico, the Danish Telescope and the Very Large Telescope in Chile to track the asteroid, which is currently 28 ...

Should an impact occur, the asteroid would likely survive its passage through Earth’s atmosphere and strike the ground or the ocean. A similar 50-meter body crashed in what is now Arizona about 50,000 ...

That asteroid killed 70% of life on Earth and left a 120-mile-wide crater on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Asteroid 2024 YR is paltry in comparison to Halley’s Comet and the Chicxulub asteroid, but ...

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Since early January, astronomers have used the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico, the Danish Telescope and the Very Large Telescope in Chile to track the asteroid ... the collision merely left ...