Scientists plan to bury into an asteroid and blow it up to save Earth
(AFP/Getty) Scientists have suggested burying a nuclear bomb inside of an asteroid to help save us from destruction.…
Earth’s Oldest Known Impact Crater May Have Been Found in the Australian Outback. It Hit Earth 3 Billion Years Ago
Credit: Curtin University. Three billion years ago, before there were any animals, forests, and even before oxygen filled…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is 12 Billion Years Old, Almost Three Times Older Than the Solar System
Credit: ESA. One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the…
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…
Chinese university-led mission to study asteroid Apophis during close encounter with Earth
PADUA, Italy — A spacecraft developed by Tsinghua University is set to join international missions to study the…
NASA: Asteroid the size of 38 Menachem Mendel Schneersons to pass Earth Thursday
An asteroid around the size of 38 Lubavitcher Rebbes is set to pass the Earth on Thursday, June…
Eternal ‘star’: asteroid named after firefighter killed in Hong Kong blaze
An asteroid discovered by a Hong Kong-born astronomer has been named after a firefighter who died in the…
Quantifying Surface Heterogeneity Across Asteroid (101955) Bennu using Candidate Site Remote Sensing Data
Locations of the four candidate sites across a 2D map projection of Bennu’s surface captured by the OSIRIS-REx…
An 800-Million-Year-Old Impact Shower on the Terrestrial Planets from the Breakup of the Eulalia Parent Body
Schematic illustrating the evolutionary stages of the Eulalia asteroid family. (a) The Eulalia parent body resides near 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…
Through Nasa’s Hubble Telescope: A journey across the universe
The spectacular planetary nebula, NGC 6302, resembling the delicate wings of a cosmic butterfly is located nearly 4,000…
See Boeing 737-Sized Asteroid Pass Much Closer Than The Moon Tonight
When at its closest at 4:16 p.m. EDT (20:16 UTC) on June 27, 2011 UL21 will be one…