A Giant Asteroid Struck Australia 11 Million Years Ago. So Where Is the Crater?
Scientists have discovered a new field of rare glass fragments in Australia, created by a massive asteroid impact…
Mission Impossible? Asteroid the Size of a House Poses New Challenge for Hayabusa2
An artist’s impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26.…
An Asteroid’s Billion-Year-Old Secret Is a “Genuine Surprise” to Scientists
Asteroid Ryugu’s samples reveal that liquid water persisted on its parent body for over a billion years, reshaping…
NASA Scientists Consider Blowing Up “City-Killer” Asteroid Headed for the Moon
Fictional depiction of what blowing up the asteroid could look like. AI-generated image. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024…
NASA wants to blow up this asteroid with a nuclear charge before it reaches the Moon
Many celestial objects travel within our solar system, and sometimes they can pose a significant threat to Earth…
Amateur Astronomers Help Track Asteroid To French Impact Site
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere…
New Type of Tektite Reveals 11-Million-Year-Old Asteroid Impact in Australia
Tektites are nearly pure glasses (practically no crystalline inclusions) created when a space rock slams into Earth, melting…
Asteroid strike gone wrong could put Earth in fresh danger, scientists warn
To do this, the team gathered data from the DART mission and developed a computational technique to figure…
The Tiny Cosmic “Keyholes” That Could Send Asteroids Back to Earth
Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in…
China proposes flyby mission to asteroid Apophis during 2029 Earth encounter
HELSINKI — Chinese scientists are proposing using a pathfinder spacecraft to make a flyby of asteroid Apophis when…
China planning mission to strike asteroid, alter its orbit: Report
China is moving forward with plans for an ambitious planetary defense mission aimed at testing whether a spacecraft…
China designing mission to defend Earth from asteroids, top space researcher says
China is planning an advanced mission to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to…