Scientists discover that an ancient asteroid struck the North Sea millions of years ago, generating a massive tsunami wave ...
The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.
Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...
The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a speed of some 11,453 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away ...
The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, ...
Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest ...
The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 ...
A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing ...
In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...
Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might ...
It was to swoop past 2022 OB5, a rocky asteroid island adrift in a starry sea, and take photographs of it. Odin successfully ...