The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

For comparison, that is 100 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World ... before sharply dropping towards zero once scientists can calculate the asteroid's exact ...

Scientists estimate the asteroid that produced these canyons about 3.8 billion years ago was 15 miles across. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

"The size of this asteroid YR4 means it could be 100 times more than the Second World War’s atomic bombs ... there would be tsunamis like we’ve never seen before, probably kilometres high.

Kring and his team estimate the asteroid was 15 miles (25 kilometers) across and that the energy needed to create these two canyons would have been more than 130 times that in the world’s ...