The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into what is ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
While its discovery involved more than one fumbling astronomer, the asteroid 2024 Y24 has been in the headlines for its high ...