Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive ...

That asteroid was probably about six miles across; Bennu is less than a third of a mile wide, on average. Even so, a collision with Bennu would be regionally devastating. An impact would pack the ...

Asteroid systems, particularly binary configurations, represent dynamic natural laboratories for studying impact processes and collisional outcomes in our Solar System. Recent advances have shed ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance. The close approach will happen at ...

Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

The latest comes from MIT scientists, who argue in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances that a large asteroid impact briefly boosted the Moon's early weak magnetic field—and ...

However, later on Thursday afternoon, the impact probability increased to 2.3%, stated NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. The asteroid was discovered in December 2024 and its ...

A study from the University of Aberdeen has revealed a new approach to evaluating the ecological impacts of offshore activities ... in a measurable net positive impact on biodiversity ...

The asteroid is about the size of a 10-story building, according to researchers. “In the unlikely event that 2024 YR4 is on an impact trajectory, the impact would occur somewhere along a risk ...

a frankly terrifying asteroid strike that remains the largest asteroid impact event in recorded history. On June 30, 1908, an asteroid estimated to be about 160 to 200 feet wide exploded several ...

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...