Further observations ruled out an impact. The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs and ...

The asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide. The space rock has a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for the Center ...

A recently spotted space rock has suddenly climbed atop astronomers’ threat lists. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR now has ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way ... the measure could be taken against a space rock the size of a football pitch which is being ...

The asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide. The space rock has a "size range comparable to that of a large building," said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for the Center for ...

But sometimes a space rock gets flagged as a potential threat because there is a slim chance that it may collide with Earth. A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ...

It’s like the actual path of the asteroid is a cone with its vertex at the present position, opening up in the direction you’re trying to predict. Statistically speaking the rock could be ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

An asteroid is coming close to Earth in the future — but officials urge the public not to panic. Just days after astronomers initially insisted that the likelihood of a direct hit of the planet ...

The ESA estimates that the asteroid is between 40 metres and 100 metres wide. That would potentially make the space rock’s width similar to the height of Big Ben in London, which is 96 metres tall.