The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America ...

As technology advances, so does our ability to track celestial bodies that could pose a threat to our planet. In this vein, the asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed the 'City Killer,' has garnered notice due to ...

The projected risk corridor spanned vast regions, including the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America ... asteroid ...

“Think of a four-way stop, and the only way people can travel north and south ... Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid that ...

Odin is also silent, with its planned asteroid flyby unlikely. As for Athena, Intuitive Machines made dozens of repairs and upgrades following the company’s sideways touchdown by its first lander. It ...

An asteroid big enough to wipe out an entire city crashed to Earth 50,000 years ago in what is now northern Arizona. It left a crater that was three quarters of a mile wide and 600 feet deep.

That surpasses the previous record-holding impact crater by more than 1.25 billion years, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on Thursday. MORE: Chance of asteroid striking ...

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...