The asteroid linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs was not an ordinary space rock. New research suggests that the ...
According to new evidence published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, the answer may be the flash ...
On April 13, 2029, a stony asteroid roughly the size of a cruise ship will sweep past Earth at a distance that once seemed ...
Based on computer simulations and geologic evidence, scientists propose that the deadly event may have caused global ...
Fine asteroid dust may have trapped intense heat near Earth’s surface, killing exposed animals and starting widespread fires.
A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe will also help defend the planet against potentially threatening space rocks ...
Space agencies around the globe are coordinating missions to visit the asteroid Apophis during a close encounter with Earth ...
The asteroid (44) Nysa was first discovered in 1857, circling the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Using ...
The asteroid 44 Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but we are only now finally figuring out its weird shape and ...
Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...
China’s two-pronged method could blast apart an Earth-threatening space rock using a 3-megaton explosion equivalent to 200 Hiroshima bombs.
NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft Psyche is headed for an encounter with Mars on Friday (May 15) to get a boost from the Red ...