This research helps us understand the violent nature of cosmic collisions and their role in shaping planetary landscapes. By ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a matter of minutes, ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (Atlas)—a network of telescopes that scans space for asteroids that could potentially hit Earth. The comet comes from the Oort Cloud ...

This means that an asteroid or comet has a 1% or greater chance of impacting Earth, causing localized destruction ... and if it were to hit us, the impact speed would be an estimated 10.76 ...

He added, “It was hit or miss to get this photograph ... Meanwhile, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured the comet from space as it streaked across the sky above the Earth. Sharing the picture ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll need to prepare for the worst ...