We’ve long known a disaster took place about 66 million years ago, where in a geological instant, 75% of the…
Planets aren’t the only celestial objects with moons - asteroids can have them too. They are usually other, smaller asteroids…
As evidenced by a recent Netflix movie, dangerous asteroids can come from anywhere. So there was an obvious weakness in…
Earth has a new companion. Asteroid 2020 XL5, a newly discovered kilometer-wide carbonaceous space rock, has been discovered at Earth’s…
What if a 10 km (6.5 mile)-wide asteroid was on a bee-line towards Earth, with an impending, calamitous impact just…
It might not look like much, but here is the first monumental image from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).…
An asteroid striking Earth is a genuine possibility. There are tens of thousands of asteroids classified as Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs),…
If NASA and other space agencies don't want us to freak out about asteroids colliding with Earth, why do they…
Where did Earth's water come from? Comets may have brought some of it. Asteroids may have brought some. Icy planetesimals…
Engineers only get one shot at making a spacecraft work as intended. Or at least they only get one shot…