Experts urged caution, though noting that the impact odds were likely to fall significantly. Sure enough, by late February, the probability of the asteroid hitting Earth fell to near zero.

This corridor was thought to stretch across the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea ... and then fall. For example, the asteroid Apophis ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous ... formations along the upper shelf and the deep sea. Of the five mass extinctions that have impacted ...

Some pieces survived the fireball and were recovered. It was a rare example of a tracked asteroid fall, in which the incoming rock is spotted before it encounters Earth, in this case just 3 hours ...

Space rock 2024 YR4 was detected in December by a telescope in Chile and is projected to fall to Earth ... the Arabian Sea, and South Asia. What do we know about the asteroid?

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Climatic and ecological consequences Responses to dust injections of 400 million tonnes from a Bennu-type asteroid impact ... via a decline in photosynthesis both on land and in the sea and would thus ...

In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt.

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible, 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of impacting the moon. Don't worry, ...

If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news ... YR4's probability of impacting Earth first began to fall last Wednesday when NASA announced the ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not ... Desert and Africa’s Sahara — would be stripped away if present in falling meteorites. “This discovery was only possible by analyzing samples ...

James Webb Space Telescope images of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken with the telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Andy Rivkin ...