With an estimated diameter of between 40-100 metres, and travelling at a speed of 13.5 kilometres per second, 2024 YR4 could cause significant local damage if it were to hit Earth. These types of asteroids are often called 'city killers'. The Chelyab...
Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth fluctuate as NASA tasked with studying it Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Feb 21 Could an asteroid could hit Earth in 2032? Here's what...
If an asteroid the size of YR4 were to hit our planet, it would not end life on Earth, but it would bedevastating. At that size, the impact would be equivalent to a “10-megaton bomb,” Tonry says—more than enough to cause widespread regional decimation. “Everything within three or...
Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher has realized that the solar system's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact, which confirmed that ... Planetary Sciences ...
Still, it would take an asteroid with enough mass and velocity to affect Apophis’ current course of movement and it would have to hit Apophis at exactly the right time to set it on a collision course with Earth. For those worried about humans going the way of the dinosaurs, the good n...
The shape of Asteroid 2008 TC3, a small space rock that hit the Earth in Sudan in October 2008, has been revealed to be something akin to a loaf of bread. (Image credit: P. Jenniskens/P. Scheirich) Theasteroid that crashed in northern Sudan last year was shaped like a loaf of...
An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet's orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx ...
"Because if something this size were to hit the Earth, you know, it would be an apocalypse of a biblical kind," he said. "So really here, what we've got is something that's about the moon's orbit or so it's about that kind of distance. So in no way is it going to get clo...
This was the second time that Sárneczky has found an asteroid before it hit Earth. In March 2022, he found an asteroid, now known as2022 EB5, that was about 10 feet wide just two hours before it collided with Earth a little north of Iceland. ...
"Asteroid Apophis has fascinated us as a species since its discovery in 2004: it was the first credible threat from an asteroid to our planet," Wiegert, a member of Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, said according to Western News...