NASA said that Asteroid 2024 YR4, which last year created a buzz over the possibility that it might be a threat to Earth, ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Climatic and ecological consequences Responses to dust injections of 400 million tonnes from a Bennu-type asteroid impact: spatial changes in surface temperature, total precipitation, percentage ...

Fortunately for humans, these types of impacts are exceedingly rare. The largest meteor impact in living memory is the "super bolide" asteroid that exploded over Russia in 2013. There is a very ...

Today this impact zone is called the Chicxulub Crater ... Previous research suspected the culprit was a C-type asteroid, too, but didn't use ruthenium in the analyses. That's because making ...

The impact created a cloud of dust composed ... in which NASA sent a spacecraft to intentionally knock an asteroid off its course. Knowing how different types of asteroids interact with the ...

Ruthenium is so vanishingly absent on Earth that it takes only small amounts to associate it with an impact by a carbonaceous-type asteroid. “This is the beauty of the element ruthenium,” Dr ...

This “impact winter,” the researchers write ... Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent ...