We've all seen the movie Deep Impact. That 1998 thriller where a comet barrels toward Earth, forcing world leaders to ...
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 ...
Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance that it would strike the Earth in 2032. The medium-sized asteroid, dubbed ...
PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...
Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.