Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze impact physics, planetary effects, and realistic survival scenarios from an ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self ...

A research team led by Prof. TIAN Hengci from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Some may eject huge plumes, while others could absorb the impact with less effect. “Every time we interact with an asteroid, we find something that surprises us, so there’s a lot more work to do,” ...

The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...

Researchers are learning details about asteroid impacts going back to the Earth's early history by using a new method for extracting precise information from tiny "spherules" embedded in layers of ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid ...

In news that is almost straight out of Don’t Look Up but far less horrifying, an astronomer in Poland detected an asteroid on March 11. The small asteroid, only about a meter in diameter, impacted the ...