Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight ... like the rock that killed the dinosaurs," Harwood said. "It wouldn't affect ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs ... asteroid to hit our world.