The incoming object created an impact basin and sent streams of rocks hurtling like missiles, NASA said. Within minutes, two ...
A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News.
The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...
The 500metre wide rock could throw 400million tonnes of dust into the atmosphere, dropping the Earth's temperature 4C ...
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
An asteroid spotted in late December 2024 caught astronomers’ eyes and simulations to determine possible orbits indicate the object could strike Earth in 2032, but West Virginia University researchers ...
One of those is asteroid Bennu, the recent lucky target of an asteroid sample collection mission. In a mere 157 years – ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
New NASA observations show a near-Earth asteroid with more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth in seven years.
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
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