A 1-megaton nuclear blast could prevent 97% of a city-killer asteroid from hitting Earth
A 1-megaton nuclear explosion detonated near a 160-meter asteroid produced damage and motion consistent with the object breaking…
NASA built the Roman Space Telescope to study dark matter, but it can also help protect Earth from killer asteroids
NASA is about to launch a telescope built to unlock some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, and it…
Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History
Moon rocks returned from a rarely sampled region are offering a new view of the Solar System’s turbulent…
Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
Chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening…
One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide…
Asteroid impacts heated early Earth, study finds
A new study suggests that repeated asteroid impacts on the early Earth did more than create craters, playing…
Australia’s North Pole Dome Crater is Earth’s Oldest and Only Known Archean Impact Structure
Zircon crystals and impact-altered minerals show that a massive asteroid slammed into what is now the Pilbara region…
Scientists Just Found All 5 Genetic “Letters” of DNA and RNA on an Asteroid
Ryugu sample in its return capsule. Credit: JAXA The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the…
Pilbara’s North Pole Dome confirmed again to be world’s oldest known asteroid crater
Scientists have dated a crater in the Australian outback at 3 billion years old, making it the world’s…
Asteroid Donaldjohanson is Wobbly, Peanut-Shaped Object with Watery Past, Scientists Say
The main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, a heavily cratered fragment born from a catastrophic breakup 155 million years ago, appears…
Incredible reward as Aussies begin 2,700km search for mysterious object
An asteroid being tracked as it hurtled towards Australia has mysteriously vanished, and astronomers are calling on the…
Scientists Just Found Evidence That Asteroids May Have Helped Create Life on Earth
Researchers in South Korea found ancient stromatolites inside an asteroid impact crater, pointing to a surprising link between…