This is the fourth time this year an asteroid has been designated as an “imminent impactor,” according to physicist Richard Moissl. Back in October, another asteroid was discovered by the ...

The asteroid, which has the temporary designation C0WEPC5, has now become the 4th "imminent impactor" discovered in 2024, meaning an asteroid that was discovered within hours of its expected impact.

On a long enough timescale, an asteroid, comet, or other impactor will come calling, and it’s crucial that we’re ready when ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

The UK geophysicist was the co-lead investigator on the 2016 project to drill into what remains of the impactor's crater under the Gulf of Mexico. She and colleagues spent several weeks retrieving ...