An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our ...

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Asteroid impacts represent a formidable natural phenomenon with the capacity to alter Earth’s environment on both local and global scales. The collision of near‐Earth objects (NEOs) with our planet ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

Scientists have long believed that RNA may have been the first molecule capable of storing information and evolving, a ...

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 ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

Asteroid systems, particularly binary configurations, represent dynamic natural laboratories for studying impact processes and collisional outcomes in our Solar System. Recent advances have shed light ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report issued this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...