The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid thought to be around 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) in diameter impacted the Earth, ...

We're now learning from asteroid detectives and planetary defenders who are working to keep us here on Earth safe from being impacted by possible space debris.

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific ... a direct impact would release an estimated 400 million tons of dust, aerosols, and debris into the atmosphere. This would block sunlight ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide ...

And then the trajectories of that debris you then have to track.” The 1998 science-fiction movie Armageddon, about a giant asteroid headed to Earth, imagined sending a crew of oil drillers to ...

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