Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international group of scientists says they have determined where this mysterious object came from on the moon's ...
Kamo'oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters) near-Earth object (NEO), was liberated by an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago, a smashup that created the moon's ...
The asteroid is slated to be a target for the Chinese mission Tianwen-2, which will bring a sample from the asteroid back to ...
The asteroid came barreling toward Earth at speeds of around 27,000 miles per hour. When it crashed into the ground, it created a cavity in what is now the Gulf of Mexico, which is roughly 124 ...
Let's see what the Martian moon Deimos is all about, shall we? The journey into space is a long one, which gives many spacecraft time for a side quest or two during their missions. In the case of ...
Samples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface of asteroid Ryugu, some probably due to micrometeoroid ...
Impact and dynamical modeling revealed that to launch a chunk of rock the size of Kamo’oalewa away from the Moon, it would take an impact from an asteroid of at least 1 km (0.6 miles) wide.
What would be the likely outcome of an asteroid colliding with Earth? That's the question tackled by this anxiety-inducing documentary. It seems a lot depends on whereabouts on the planet such an ...
A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...
Whether it's a natural disaster, disease, or asteroid hurtling through space straight towards Earth, these disaster movies ...
Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely ...