A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an asteroid moving at more than a kilometre a second, releasing energy when it struck equivalent to 130 times that of all the ...
About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...
The asteroid, 2024 YR4, is estimated to be 58 metres wide and could cause an explosion in the atmosphere or an impact crater on the ground ... There are currently 1,744 near-earth asteroids ...
Imagine that the Earth was hit by an asteroid the size of the World Trade Center. What would happen? Scientists have modeled ...
What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...
So we studied an impact crater on the far side of the moon near the South Pole ... New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair ...