The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Or we could build a satellite to send to 2024 YR4, he says, similar to ESA’s Ramses satellite – due to travel to observe the asteroid Apophis, which is set to pass close to Earth in 2029. A final ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

Science. Earthquake in the field of quantum physics after the shape of electrons is revealed Science. New type of duck-billed dinosaur found in China opens door to future discoveries There is a ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history." The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

This would pose no threat to people on Earth, but would generate a sizable impact crater on our planet's only natural satellite. A 10 metre-wide asteroid broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia ...