The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

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The estimated flight path of an asteroid the size of Big Ben’s tower will see it pass over some of the world’s most populous ...

The asteroid, which has been dubbed "2021 FH1," is estimated to be about 98 feet across and will come within 925,000 miles of the Earth—about four times the average distance between the Earth ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

The encounter with Donaldjohanson won't be Lucy's first visit to an asteroid. Having launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy encountered the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, Selam, in November of 2023.