A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance…
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About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of…
Read More »The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago…
Read More »An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032…
Read More »New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago…
Read More »New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and facilities around the…
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A private company is aiming to heave a microwave oven-size spacecraft toward an asteroid later this week, its goal to…
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An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less…
Read More »Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a…
Read More »A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics…
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