Catch Tallahassee Astronomical Society’s free planetarium show “February Skies over Tallahassee,” at the Fogg Planetarium on Feb. 1.

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If an asteroid the size of YR4 were to hit our planet, it would not end life on Earth, but it would be devastating. At that size, the impact would be equivalent to a “10-megaton bomb,” Tonry ...

That’s why this one now tops ESA’s asteroid risk list. The potential impact would occur on Dec. 22, 2032. It’s much too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth. The good news ...

The revelation was made by the European Space Agency (ESA) which said that it is closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 which is about the size of a football pitch. The space agency stated that it has a ...

The asteroid that hit Arizona 50,000 years ago and created the 600-foot-deep "Meteor Crater" was 100 to 170 feet (30 to 50 meters) across. "A similar-size impact event today could destroy a city ...

With an estimated size ranging from 40 metres to 100 metres, the asteroid could cause significant damage to a local region if it were to hit, though impacts of this size occur only once every few ...

A large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth ... is between 130 feet and 330 feet in diameter and could hit Earth in 2032, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...