A nuclear bomb might one day deflect an asteroid and save Earth from a disaster. Here’s how the lab simulation went: Before the asteroid could threaten the peaceful blue planet below ...

Scientists have discovered that hidden "city killer" asteroids orbiting alongside Venus could pose an "invisible threat" to ...

the researchers ran several dust impact scenarios for a Bennu-type asteroid collision with Earth. In response to dust injections of 100–400 million tons, the supercomputer model simulations show ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid ... the Earth, but I highly doubt it would cause any major threat,” assured Rankin. If YR4 is on a collision ...

A new simulation looked at what would happen if the Earth collided with an asteroid ... ‘Climatic and ecological responses to Bennu-type asteroid collisions’, in the journal Science Advances.

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

They orbit with Venus, but they’re headed our way. A newly modeled population of stealthy asteroids could pose a collision risk to Earth.

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

NASA has updated the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing a 4.3% chance it could collide with the moon on December 22, 2032. Initially feared to pose the highest known impact risk to Earth, the ...

Climatic and ecological consequences Responses to dust injections of 400 million tonnes from a Bennu-type asteroid impact ... this question by running several impact simulations with a ...