An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

"An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous ...

To keep a close eye on this celestial body, NASA is utilising an advanced tracking system at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Asteroid 2024 RV50, measuring 710 feet, will make a close approach to Earth on October 18, 2024, passing at a distance of ...

A bus-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth on 19 October. Named 2024 TY21, the asteroid is around 40 feet wide. It will pass at a safe distance of 840,000 miles. NASA assures that there is no threat to ...

2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

DART carried a CubeSat, LICIACube, from the Italian Space Agency, which provided the first fleeting glimpse of the collision aftermath. Very important data that will be expanded by the arrival of Hera ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Researchers found that 70% of meteorites originate from three asteroid families formed by recent collisions. They have ...

Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...