In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...

While its discovery involved more than one fumbling astronomer, the asteroid 2024 Y24 has been in the headlines for its high ...

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The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

The Tunguska Event is the largest space-related explosion in human history ... a Russian mineralogist, led the Soviet research mission and, after speaking to locals, realised an asteroid was ...

“The meteor in Chelyabinsk, Russia. That was seen as a fireball across the sky and exploded in the air. We think this would also have a similar impact based on its size and composition,” said Hartweg.

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

On 15 February 2013, a small asteroid (likely about 18 meters in diameter) detonated near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The explosion, about 30 kilometers above the Earth's surface, generated 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 ...

Russian foreign ministry declared the bombing against their consulate facility in Marseille on Monday confirming all characteristics of terrorist activity.

“Asteroid impacts have taken place many times in Earth’s history,” the BBC said. “Our early human ancestors may have experienced some of these planet-shifting events before with potential ...