The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.
Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...
A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...
In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...
A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...
Asteroid 2025 TF's closest approach was about ~186 miles (300 km) from Earth. It is estimated to be about 2 meters (6.5 feet) in diameter. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: NASA/jPL-Caltech | ed ...
Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured a selfie with Earth when it was about 26.7 million miles (44M km) from Earth and 28 ...
This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...
The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.
A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...
Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...