Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability of colliding with Earth. It’s approximately the size of a jumbo jet and ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

NASA was reportedly worried that the chances of a "city killing" asteroid striking Earth could breach the 20 ... comparable to the height of Big Ben. The giant space rock was immediately added ...

An asteroid that hit the Yucatan Peninsula in ... While the odds of a giant asteroid – Asteroid 2024 YR4 – hitting Earth in 2032 were hovering at around 3 per cent last week, they have now ...

Scientists have nearly ruled out any threat from Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was previously believed to have a 3.1 per cent chance of hitting Earth ... the asteroid could hit the moon on 22 December ...

Nasa feared the chances of a deadly asteroid hitting Earth could rise past 20 per cent, but now believe it is more likely to collide with the Moon. The “2024 YR4” space rock, which is thought ...

That asteroid, called the Chicxulub impactor, hit what is now the Yucatan ... The 1998 science-fiction movie Armageddon, about a giant asteroid headed to Earth, imagined sending a crew of oil ...

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million ... [and] still at the top of their game when the asteroid hit." "Many of them had feathers ...

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...