YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Climatic and ecological responses to dust injections of 400 million tons from a Bennu-type asteroid impact. Spatial changes ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

In October 2020, NASA’s OSRISIS-REx spacecraft made history by touching down on the asteroid Bennu and grabbing a sample of rock and debris. New analysis of this encounter has revealed the probe ...

Hayabusa2 has been in space since 2014, and it slowly made its way to an orbit 20 km above the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. In late 2018, the spacecraft made a close approach to the asteroid and ...

The collision of the spacecraft—which weighed about 1,300 pounds—had a noticeable impact on the asteroid and its movements. "The simulation results based on observations of the asteroid ...

A new simulation looked at what would happen if the Earth collided with an asteroid with a diameter of around 500 metres, roughly the same as Bennu, a real rock that has been studied in great detail.

How it Works. Here’s how the lab simulation went: Before the asteroid could threaten the peaceful blue planet below, a powerful pulse of x-rays rained down on its surface, rapidly heating the ...

An asteroid collision with earth could be potentially catastrophic for the planet and its inhabitants. If big and powerful enough, an impact from a giant slab of rock to the Earth's surface could ...

For a one-nanometer fall, we can ignore Earth’s gravity for 20 millionths of a second as Z produces a burst of X-rays that sweeps over the mock-asteroid surface 12.5 millimeters across, about ...

While NASA has proved it can deflect a killer asteroid off a path toward Earth, scientists are working on a Plan B - and it includes a nuclear bomb. And scientists have simulated the nuke's impact.

Astronomers on Earth — and a shoebox-size Italian spacecraft called LICIACube — captured the DART mission’s successful strike on Dimorphos.