Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

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The giant space rock is still approximately 8 years away — or approximately 27 million miles. It sits near the top of NASA’s automated Sentry risk list that ranks known Near Earth Objects ...

The chances of a giant space rock striking the Earth have decreased, but NASA and other space agencies are still devising a plan to obliterate it. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a recently discovered ...

Some studies have suggested that they're material from the ancient Earth — either a layer of primordial unmixed rock from the planet's formation or a leftover hunk of the giant space rock that ...

Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the Earth to slow down asteroids, a potential impact by the giant space rock could create a crater hundreds of metres wide, ejecting debris into space.

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...

While earlier estimates said the chance of the giant space rock- roughly the size of Big Ben- had around a one per cent chance of collision with our planet, this has now risen to 2.3 per cent ...