When you start rooting for the planet-killing asteroid in a speculative disaster show to please hurry up and put humanity out ...

Although the mission, backed by a company called AstroForge, ran into problems, it’s part of a new wave of activity by ...

"The signatures of space weathering we have detected directly will give us a better understanding of some of the phenomena ...

The asteroid impact led to a spiral of extinctions that ... information into a computer model of the global atmosphere. The simulation suggested that within about a week, dust grains between ...

What would be the likely outcome of an asteroid colliding with Earth ... A land strike would create a massive fireball, whereas an impact in water would see the world engulfed in a tidal wave ...

But that impact assessment changed over the years after astronomers tracked Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942 ... asteroids using a detailed computer simulation of our solar system and ...

Case in point: the infamous Chicxulub asteroid that landed off the coast ... to see if they could use something called a “kinetic impact” to actually alter the motion of an asteroid in space.

The Earth had a near miss with an asteroid that left a 14-mile wide crater on the Moon - with the impact creating a "weird quasi moon" that was discovered in 2016, scientists belive. Space rock ...

Research on the Deniliquin structure points to an asteroid impact that would have been more than double the scale of the one that killed the dinosaurs. Barely a week goes by without headlines ...

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely ...

Samples collected from asteroid Ryugu appear to hide secrets of the solar system's past, the bombardment that asteroids presently endure as they drift between planets, and perhaps even the ...