A house-sized asteroid is set to fly past Earth on 20 October. Known as 2024 SH1, the asteroid measures around 48 feet across ...

On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...

The asteroid is believed to have been 20 times larger than the one that wiped ... Subscribe to our newsletter and stay ahead ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

NASA has created a contingency plan to protect Earth from large asteroids, which includes the use of nuclear explosions as a ...

2021年3月，当阿波菲斯又一次近距离飞掠地球时，天文学家对其轨道进行了再一次精确计算。这次的计算结果显示，阿波菲斯虽然会在之后多次靠近地球，但是至少在100年内它应该都不会和地球发生碰撞，于是这颗小行星的危险警报才得以解除。但即便如此，人们对它的关 ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A ...

预计在北京时间2024年10月7日22:52（美东夏令时7日10:52），在美国东南部佛州海岸的卡纳维拉尔角太空军基地SLC-40工位，“赫拉”小行星探测器将由“猎鹰九号”运载火箭实施发射，计划将卫星送入日心轨道（Heliocentric ...

NASA has unveiled its strategy to counter potential asteroid threats in its National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan ...

Beginning Sunday, Earth's skies will soon have a temporary visitor. On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost two ...