When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
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A new study sized the asteroid at around 60 meters. Chances of it hitting the Moon may soon increase.
"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...
Scientists have issued a warning about a massive asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, that could strike the Moon in just a few years' ...
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Two House-Sized Asteroids Are Getting Closer to Earth at High Speed — NASA Closely Monitors
NASA is closely tracking two asteroids, 2025 VW and 2025 VC2 that are around 1-2 million miles away from the planet.
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...
Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...
Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
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10,000-year-old asteroid strike in China had force of 40 atomic bombs, crater study reveals
Scientists confirm the Jinlin Crater in southern China is a 10,000-year-old asteroid impact site, revealing a blast equal to ...
Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding beliefs, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact.
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