According to job listings on WeChat, China's SASTIND is recruiting young graduates to join the defense force against the ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations.

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The asteroid has been given a rating of 3 out of 10, indicating a "close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers." ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton ...

NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December ...

First spotted in December 2024, YR4 is estimated to be between 130 and 330 feet in size, roughly equivalent to a 40-story ...

Watch as a city-killer asteroid set to possibly crash into Earth in 2032 zooms away from Earth in new telescope footage.

NASA and the European Space Agency have issued updates on what is considered to be the most dangerous asteroid astronomers ...

This unexpected recovery was linked to the composition of the asteroid dust and its climate impact. Climatic and ecological ...