This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.

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Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. For nearly three decades, scientists have debated whether dinosaur species were actually ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...

An asteroid that earlier sparked fear of hitting Earth may now be on a different path heading towards the Moon. According to scientists, there's a small chance, around 2 per cent, that this asteroid ...

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared ...

Based on observations with one of the two Gemini observatories, a US research team has created a three-dimensional representation of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR 4 and also discovered that it ...

Scientists believe a 'house-sized' asteroid originally thought to have a chance of hitting Earth now has double the chance of smashing into the Moon. Researchers have managed to work out the shape ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...

A new study suggests that dinosaurs likely weren't in decline before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, challenging ...

open image in gallery Artist’s illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 as it flies by the Earth and heads toward potential impact with the Moon (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R Proctor) It would be one of the ...