If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we could not only witness the event, but also meteor storms like nothing we've ever ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

Planetary defence research often sits between modelling and imagination, with few chances to test real materials under realistic conditions. A new stu.

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

"It all fits in a swimming pool, all the gold in the world," the Fundstrat head of research said. Plus, it's "extraterrestrial." ...