University of Ferrerra researchers reported on the evolution of European skin, eye and hair pigmentation over the last 45,000 ...

"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...

There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight ...

Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...

The European Space Agency says there’s now just a 0.16 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact our planet.

For several years, astronomers have been aware of a much-ballyhooed “city-killer” asteroid named YR4 2024, which is hurtling ...

With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...