A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

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

YR4 were to strike Earth, the energy released could be equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT, capable of devastating an area the size of Washington, D.C ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could ... alongside a video simulation of the rock’s potential impact. He specifically calculated ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

A CHILLING simulation video has revealed the devastating impact a 'city-killer' asteroid would have if it hit Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently being monitored by experts over a 1-in-43 chance ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

The latest calculations reveal a 3.1 per cent chance of impact, up from the previous 2.6 per cent. While the likelihood of a strike remains low, a newly released simulation of the asteroid’s ...

If an asteroid this size were to impact Earth, it would explode in the ... Find out with this simulator Johnson said asteroids this size hit about every one thousand years, and an asteroid the ...