When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed.
An asteroid struck Mars 2.3 million years ago, throwing debris across a region of the planet equal to four times the length of the Grand Canyon. Over two million years ago, a giant asteroid ...
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 ...
In September of 2022, NASA’s DART mission smashed into the astroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour to test the effects of asteroid deflection. Although the mission was a success, scientists ...
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The DART mission has proven that we can substantially affect potentially hazardous asteroids. The shape of the asteroid Dimorphos was changed when NASA's DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into ...
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In late 2021 our species launched the first space weapon against a killer asteroid. Ok, it was not exactly a space weapon, and its target was nothing more than an innocent piece of space rock ...
This illustration provided by NASA depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at the asteroid Bennu. The craft sent a sample from the asteroid back to Earth. (AP) When most people imagine an asteroid, they ...
Dante Lauretta spoke with ABC News about his research. Scientists have tracked an asteroid the size of New York's Empire State Building to pass by Earth in 2182. While experts don't think there is ...