Killer Asteroid

From vampires and wendigos to killer asteroids, TikTok users are pumping out outlandish end-of-the-world conspiracy theories, researchers say, in yet another misinformation trend on a platform whose fate in the United States hangs in the balance.

Some asteroids are given the title of "city killers" because they are capable of destroying an entire city if they collide with an inhabited part of Earth.

With the use of a cutting-edge tool on the Victor M Blanco telescope in Chile, the "planet killer" known as 2022 AP7 and two additional near-Earth asteroids were identified.

An international team of astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a large asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth, creating a small chance far in the future of a catastrophic collision.

Researchers working closely with the University of Washington have developed a novel algorithm — known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR — to find and track asteroids that could possess killer impact for our planet. The algorithm has now proved its usefulness by detecting the first candidate asteroids.

In the aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs, it appears that brawn was more important than brains for the mammals that managed to survive the calamity and conquer a changed world.

On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.

From vampires and wendigos to killer asteroids, TikTok users are pumping out outlandish end-of-the-world conspiracy theories, researchers say, in yet another misinformation trend on a platform whose fate in the United States hangs in the balance.

Some asteroids are given the title of "city killers" because they are capable of destroying an entire city if they collide with an inhabited part of Earth.

With the use of a cutting-edge tool on the Victor M Blanco telescope in Chile, the "planet killer" known as 2022 AP7 and two additional near-Earth asteroids were identified.

An international team of astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a large asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth, creating a small chance far in the future of a catastrophic collision.

Researchers working closely with the University of Washington have developed a novel algorithm — known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR — to find and track asteroids that could possess killer impact for our planet. The algorithm has now proved its usefulness by detecting the first candidate asteroids.

In the aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs, it appears that brawn was more important than brains for the mammals that managed to survive the calamity and conquer a changed world.

On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.