The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of ...
Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
Until recently, the origin of almost all meteorites was unknown. A research team could now assign more than two thirds to ...
Scientists traced 70% of meteorites to three asteroid families. This discovery solves a mystery about meteorite origins.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...
Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...
Asteroid 2024 RV50, measuring 710 feet, will make a close approach to Earth on October 18, 2024, passing at a distance of ...