Perched on top of a remote, wind-swept hill in rural mid-Wales sits a series of structures designed to protect us against “one of the most significant risks to human civilisation”.
It will be called Dimorphos, and is approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Egypt
Asteroids crashing into the ocean could have helped create the ingredients for life, scientists say.
New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ angle.
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu’s surface.
A planned NASA mission to test its capability to defend Earth from an incoming asteroid could cause the planet’s first-ever artificial meteor shower, a study found earlier this year.
At least 17 high-inclination Centaurs and two trans-Neptunian objects were captured by the Solar System from the interstellar medium, according to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
An asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth next week, but it’s not expected to collide with our planet.
The alleged exoplanet was bright and vivid in 2004, then totally vanished by 2014.
The carbon-rich asteroid Ryugu may have come together just 10 million years or so ago.
