A giant 'planet killer' asteroid is set to make a 'very close' approach to Earth, which can trigger a dramatic climate change should it impact our planet. The space rock, 2011 UL21, is about the ...

2011 UL21 is also categorized as a 'planet killer,' which is defined as an asteroid capable of damage on a continental scale and producing enough debris upon impact that would trigger significant ...

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As the asteroid or comet struck Earth, it vaporized some of the planet’s bedrock, pushing fine dust particles into the stratosphere, obscuring the sun, preventing planets from photosynthesizing ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

NASA will deploy cutting-edge technology to better understand the inner workings of 2024 XN1 during its near-Earth passage.

The asteroid impact simulation actually breaks ... might be able to use to help garner more public knowledge on planet-killer asteroids. For now, at least, you can head over to the app yourself ...

According to several preliminary reports, the asteroid posed no danger to the planet and its inhabitants, although it did not go unnoticed by the dazzling light event in the skies over Eastern ...

and killer robots remain in the realm of fiction (at least for now), but we know that asteroids are out there and we know ...

Nasa said it was rare for an asteroid so big to come so close to the planet and the close encounter will give astronomers a chance to study a space rock from just over 68,000km away. Earlier this ...

The asteroid, formally named 2024 XA1, measured about 28 inches across, and had only been spotted a mere 12 hours before it collided with our planet's atmosphere. The European Space Agency (ESA ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has spotted a giant "city killer" asteroid flying toward Earth. And this afternoon, it will reach its closest approach to our planet, about 1.77 million miles away.