At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

An asteroid that exploded last year over Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving more than 1,000 people injured by flying glass and debris, collided with another asteroid before hitting Earth, new research by ...

Images from a 2D Spheral simulation showing the fragmentation of the Chelyabinsk bolide as it descends through the atmosphere. Credit: LLNL Planetary Defense program Images from a 2D Spheral ...

Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid; NASA responds. This diagram shows the orbit of asteroid 2013 TV135 (in blue), which has just a one-in-63,000 chance of impacting Earth. Its ...

(CNN) — The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, ...

A group of scientists recently published a paper that considers options for dealing with the asteroid — one of which includes a nuclear “disruption” An asteroid may hit the moon in 2032 — and some ...

European Space Agency says milestone highlights both Earth’s vulnerability and advances in planetary-defense science - Anadolu Ajansı ...

According to a pair of scientific studies published on Wednesday, the chances of an asteroid striking Earth are higher than previously assumed. Whereas an event like February's Chelyabinsk ...