Can we secure our place in the Solar System? Not in any absolute sense because nature can be very unpredictable.…
After NASA's DART mission slammed into asteroid Dimorphous in September 2022, scientists determined the impact caused tons of rock to…
The large impact craters dotting our planet are powerful reminders that asteroids and comets strike the Earth from time to…
NASA says its DART spacecraft caused a larger-than-expected change in the path of its target asteroid when they collided two…
The Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) has returned a series of close-up images of the asteroid Dimorphos,…
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of…
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at a very high speed it heats up. This heating up produces a…
Gazing at the night sky can evoke a sense of wonder regarding humanity's place in the Universe. But that's not…
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
A new collaborative study has shown that nuclear explosions could be used to deflect asteroids, protecting Earth from cataclysmic impacts.