ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A comet spanning roughly 2,000 feet landing in the heart of St. Louis could cause a crater nearly 4 miles wide and an earthquake felt as far as 116 miles away, according to an ...

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is responsible for finding and tracking potentially dangerous asteroids before ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A new asteroid discovery has been a popular topic for scientists this year, but what are the actual chances it could impact Earth? Asteroid YR4 2024 was discovered in December ...

This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system shows the motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over about one hour on Dec. 27. (ATLAS / University of Hawaii / NASA) The chances ...

SPACE (KXAN) — We’re seven years away from a possible asteroid impact on Earth. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking the Earth and is the size of Cinderella’s Castle at Disney ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of an asteroid making a close approach to Earth, as asteroid 2024 YR4 is expected ...

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged a three-mile-long trough in the ground and buckled local rocks has been revealed in a NASA satellite image. Estimated to have been 700–1,300 feet ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...