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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The internet has been buzzing about the so-called "mini-moon" that will remain in Earth's gravitational orbit for roughly two months. The 33-foot-long asteroid known as 2024 PT5 was discovered by ...

A blast of X-rays from a nuclear explosion should be enough to save Earth from an incoming asteroid, according to ... which lasted just 20 millionths of a second, showed that the quartz and ...