Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear ...

A ONCE-in-a-millennium mega asteroid will be visible to billions without the need for any equipment as it glides past Earth. Scientists have revealed that the historic planetary event will be ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can do big damage.

The target for impact is a near-Earth asteroid that is minuscule in the vastness of space, with a diameter of only 50 to 100 meters, but the energy of the impact would be equivalent to the ...

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, has found evidence that liquid water once moved ...

This gem is not absolutely safe, as asteroids, which can appear as "uninvited guests" from space at any moment, remain a potential threat that humanity must face. In the fall of 2022, after the United ...

A little less than four years from now, a killer asteroid will narrowly fly past planet Earth. This will be a celestial event visible around the world—for a few weeks, Apophis will shine among the ...

A Russian satellite came back to Earth while carrying organisms, as part of a mission to test the theory that life was seeded ...