According to Collins' modeling, such an asteroid would carve a permanent crater more than 7 miles wide (11 km) and more than 2,030 feet deep (619 m) when it impacts.

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

A city-killer asteroid is currently on NASA’s radar because it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032.However, new reports suggest that it could hit the Moon instead. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is ...

But could an asteroid destroy the planet entirely? Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... or 6,700 km wide — more than 500 times the width of the dinosaur-destroying asteroid).

The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on ... (44,300 kilometers per hour), ... (7,500,000 km) of Earth and are larger than 500 feet ...

Researchers want to know whether Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — left a crater or perhaps reshaped the 500-foot (150-meter) asteroid more dramatically.

At upwards of 500 meters wide, the asteroid that created the Nadir crater would’ve been many times more destructive. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature C ommunications ...