NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...

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

Scientists are war-gaming humanity's worst nightmare: an asteroid with Earth's name on it. In April 2024, nearly 100 planetary defence experts gathered at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to ...

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...

Researchers say we can use two 100-kiloton nuclear bombs to destroy the asteroid 2024 YR4 from hitting the Moon.

Two decades after Silverpit was discovered, Nicholson and colleagues revisited the controversy almost by chance. In 2022, ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New evidence confirms that it was caused by an asteroid or comet impact about ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth.