If the asteroid were to hit the planet, the resulting destruction would be equivalent to that of nuclear bombs, wiping out entire regions and cities. In 2013, the Chelyabinsk meteor was only about ...

And how does asteroid 2024 YR4 stack up to some of astronomy’s biggest extraterrestrial impacts? 1. Chelyabinsk Meteor Compared to ancient giant impacts, this meteor was small fry, but it still packed ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...

Exploring the Intricate Patterns of a Meteorite Slice While the intense heat of collisions with the atmosphere seems to have melted most of the meteorites, the remaining fragments suggest that ...

So long, space travel. The White House plans to terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) missions, effectively cutting the ...

The slice is the most common miss among recreational golfers. Go to any range on the weekend and you’ll see what I mean. Hackers just can’t seem to stop hitting that big banana ball.

A Lyrid meteor shower begins this week, peaking on April 21-22 Meteor showers are "basically debris from the tails of comets" The meteor shower will be visible in the northern hemisphere It's one ...

But I do make one exception. If a restaurant serves a Big Slice of Cake, I’m on board. Because nothing, and I mean nothing, is grander than a slab of layer cake. Psychologically, I think this is ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.

Lives would be lost and cities would be destroyed. The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, however, was only 18 meters in diameter. Yet it resulted in 1,500 injuries and shattered glass in buildings.

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory ... one to do so appeared undetected on Feb. 15, 2013, over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring many people when its shock wave ...