World's Oldest Impact Crater Found, Rewriting Earth's Ancient History Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...

The space agency claimed that the dangerous space rock now has a 1-in-38, or 2.6%, chance of hitting home ... rubric for the danger of NEOs (Near Earth Objects) that measure over 65 feet ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) --NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency are ...

Planets closer to the Sun are orbiting faster than Earth, with Mercury traveling 1.6 times faster than Earth at 105,000mph(47.4km/s). At the other end of the spectrum is Neptune, which is ...

THE odds of a massive asteroid slamming into Earth have jumped again, with NASA now warning of a 2.6% chance of impact. Asteroid 2024YR4 is hurtling through space at 30,000 mph and could unleash ...

Martin models the evolution of life on Earth in a few minutes using the visual aid of a walk through timeline. From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the ...

On February 7, NASA upped the likelihood of the asteroid striking Earth from 1.2 percent to 2.3 percent. Then the probability went up to 2.6 percent and it was most recently updated to 3.1 percent ...

All this happened about 4.5 billion years after Earth formed, with innumerable steps occurring in between that made our planet a cradle for intelligent life. An influential scientific thesis ...

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies ... the most recent estimate had put it at 2.6 per cent. At the end of January, it had been just 1 per cent. Those changes are the result of more ...