If it hit on the land, it would carve out a new impact crater, probably more than a kilometre across and a couple of hundred metres deep – something similar to Meteor Crater in Arizona. Again, ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural ... larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs.
But the next loop might pose some danger. As of January, scientists like David Rankin, a comet and asteroid hunter at the University of Arizona, estimated that there was a 1-in-83 or 1.2 percent ...
Researchers from Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey discovered what has become known as Asteroid 2024 YR4 last Christmas. On January 28, the asteroid was placed at level 3 in the Torino impact hazard ...
Scientists have identified life’s key ingredients and signs of the stew needed to mix them in asteroid samples brought back to Earth by a University of Arizona-led space mission. The rocks and ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard ...
Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, researchers say. Discovered last Christmas by Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, the asteroid is ...
WASHINGTON - The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders ... 10 minutes by rocky debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface roughly 3.8 ...