In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

This is what happened with the Tunguska impact in Russia just over a hundred years ago. The odds of a 5-10 kilometer wide asteroid, the likes of which made the dinosaurs go extinct, hitting Earth ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high of 3.1 per cent on Feb. 18. The number has since dropped to near zero, but this news was a real-life Don’t Look Up moment, and a stark ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 — specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a ...

An ancient asteroid slammed into Australia 600 million years ago, leaving a long, shallow crater. Shatter cones and rock deformations reveal the force of the impact, but its full consequences remain ...

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is between 40 and 90 meters in diameter ... However, continued observations through early 2025 led NASA to confirm that 2024 YR4 poses no significant impact risk to Earth in 2032 or ...