The play depicts Augie Steenbeck (portrayed by Jason Schwartzman) and his son Woodrow (portrayed by Jake Ryan) and three daughters attending the Junior Stargazer convention in Asteroid City. Steenbeck ...

Even more recently, on June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, residents of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia ...

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Measuring between 130 and 300 feet wide, the asteroid could impact a major city, endangering millions. Space agencies worldwide are tracking its path, considering potential interventions.

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This is nearly 100 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb and as large as the Statue of Liberty. An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight ...

The asteroid, estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, is big enough to potentially wipe out a city. It first caught astronomers' attention when it rose on the NASA automated Sentry risk list ...

An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the year 2032. But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash ...

Ars: What are we learning about the asteroid's destructive potential? Andrews: The damage it could cause would be localized to a roughly city-sized area, so if it hits the middle of the ocean or a ...

Thus, the asteroid was temporarily given a Torino Scale of 3, which marked a grave threat. Prior to the danger of impact being minimized, 2024 YR4 was a "city-killer" asteroid. Measuring some 54 ...

Measuring as large as the Statue of Liberty, the asteroid has raised fears of a potential city-leveling impact. Initial predictions gave it a one-in-83 chance of hitting our planet, but those odds ...

But now, the latest update for the city-killer asteroid has delivered an audible sigh of relief as its chances of hitting Earth in 2032 have dropped to virtually zero. When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was ...