YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...
YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...
Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...