YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

A 'city-destroying' asteroid expected to come perilously close to Earth is much bigger than previously thought, scientists have announced. Space agencies had initially estimated that large space ...

Climatic and ecological consequences Responses to dust injections of 400 million tonnes from a Bennu-type asteroid ... earthquakes and tsunamis, an asteroid impact would have long-lasting effects on ...