you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week. The 2024 YR4 asteroid observed by ...

The asteroid was only about 27 inches in diameter and marks the fourth one to hit Earth’s atmosphere in 2024. The asteroid was only the 11th confirmed “imminent impactor” overall ...

Will it help stave off a potential Armageddon? NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace for deep impact.

NASA is using its most powerful space telescope to study the true size of the "city-killer" asteroid that has a one-in-43 chance of striking Earth in 2032. Last week, experts bumped up the odds of ...

An asteroid on a collision course with Earth discovered early on Tuesday (Dec 3) became the fourth imminent impactor of 2024. It hit our planet over Siberia hours later. The small space rock ...