Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

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

NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...

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

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

NASA launched a mission to an asteroid a scientist estimated could be worth up a ridiculous amount, but they later made an ...

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 ...

A small asteroid could strike the Moon in 2032, sparking moonquakes, glowing craters and meteor showers, while scientists debate whether to stop it or watch a rare cosmic experiment unfold.

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

A new Swansea University study has used advanced artificial intelligence to discover the asteroid strike that wiped out the ...