Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...
For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, better known as DART, turned a one‑ton spacecraft into a guided ...
For decades, the idea of saving Earth from an incoming asteroid with nuclear weapons lived mostly in popcorn cinema, a fantasy of oil drillers and last‑minute heroics. Now a new generation of physics ...
The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.
The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.
A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...
An AI-driven study using a massive global fossil dataset shows the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species A groundbreaking new study using advanced ...
Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods and warm "greenhouse" states. Scientists have long linked these climate ...
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"Atmospheric greenhouse gases have steadily increased over the last 10 years." Although 2025 did not set a new global temperature record, it still delivered clear signs of a warming planet. According ...
Imagine a time when Earth was a molten, volcanic wasteland, heavily bombarded by colossal asteroids. We’ve long feared these cosmic impacts as destroyers of life, but what if they were the key to our ...
STUNNED astronomers have spotted a new comet out in space – and it this could be a pretty special one. There’s a chance it’ll be visible with the naked eye in just a few weeks ...