Sixty-six million years ago, this asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the life on our planet. Including the ...
Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 60 metres long, may hit the Moon in December of the year 2032. Scientists assured that Earth is ...
Images from a 2D Spheral simulation showing the fragmentation of the Chelyabinsk bolide as it descends through the atmosphere. Credit: LLNL Planetary Defense program Images from a 2D Spheral ...
One of the NEAs, 99942 Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, is arriving on (of all the freaking dates) Friday the 13th in ...
The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3. The TianWen-2 spacecraft mainly focuses on ...
A fireball streaks across the morning sky above NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. A rare display of “shooting stars” ...