The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...
It’s extremely unlikely that a massive asteroid will strike Earth anytime soon. According to one astrophysicist, however, ...
The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...
A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.
Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...
The good news? The chance of an unknown asteroid hitting Apophis off its current course at all was less than one-in-a-million. And the odds that such an impact would send it hurtling toward Earth ...
The space rock, measuring only about a metre (3ft) in size, had eluded discovery and was spotted by research technologist ...
One year before impact, space agencies from every country launch nuclear deflection missiles with hopes of pushing the giant asteroid away from our planet - but the mission fails. FEMA orders mass ...
The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...