seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos, DART aims to shift an ...

In a major discovery, scientists have found fossilized remains that offer an incredible glimpse into the moments after the asteroid impact that ended the age of the dinosaurs. Buried deep at North ...

Among the 8,000 fossil records examined, Ceratopsians, including horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, were the most common, which may indicate a thriving population prior to the asteroid impact.

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI ...

Scientists have discovered that a hydrothermal system created by the asteroid impact may have helped marine life flourish at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater ...

While the asteroid avoiding Earth would obviously be a cause for relief, any potential impact with the Moon could also affect humanity, as it would sent large amounts of rocky debris into space.

That began to change in late February as more precise observations allowed scientists to effectively winnow down the asteroid's odds of impact to a number so low, it may as well be zero.

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

Initially flagged as a potentially hazardous asteroid, with just over a 1 per cent chance of hitting Earth in December of 2032, the odds of impact kept rising as more observations came in.

If the smaller value is correct, the consequences of an impact would be localized; in the case of a larger asteroid, the effects would be at least regional. However, only the James Webb space ...

She said: “As more observations of the asteroid’s orbit are obtained, its impact probability will become better known. "It is possible that asteroid 2024 YR4 will be ruled out as an impact ...

David Rankin, an engineer at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey Project, has worked out the "impact risk corridor" of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, based on its current path. NASA revealed last ...