Some lunar rocks have left scientists puzzled for decades. Despite the Moon having no global magnetic field today, samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions and data from orbiting spacecraft ...

Astronomers have posted simulation of the expected impact corridor of 2924 YR4. It is based on NASA's assessment, as reported by Scientific American, and stretches from the eastern Pacific Ocean ...

Currently, we lack proven technology to prevent such a collision. Adding to these concerns is the massive “Colossal God of Chaos” asteroid, weighing 67.24 million tons. It’s projected to pass ...

This is especially concerning because at this point in time, we really don’t have any way to stop it. And don’t even get us started on the 67.24 million ton “Colossal God of Chaos” asteroid which is ...

Climatic and ecological responses to dust injections of 400 million tons from a Bennu-type asteroid impact. Spatial changes of surface temperature (upper left), total precipitation (upper right), ...

A medium-sized asteroid could bring dramatic changes to the Earth – in unexpected ways, according to a new simulation. A new simulation looked at what would happen if the Earth collided with an ...

There's very little chance of an asteroid striking Earth anytime soon — a roughly 5,000-foot (1.5 km) asteroid is only estimated to crash into the Earth approximately once every 1 million years.

Sharing a simulation, the YouTuber explained: "The asteroid would enter our atmosphere, travelling 100 times faster than a commercial airplane, it strikes the surface with more explosive power ...

A computer simulation shows how a large-enough asteroid could have been captured by Mars and torn to shreds by the planet’s gravity, briefly forming a debris cloud — and possibly a ring system ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds. An X-ray pulse may be able to vaporize the surface of an asteroid and ...

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 ...

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 ...