Astronomers just can’t catch a break from Rubin.
Blue Origin unveiled a planetary defense concept to protect Earth from incoming asteroids.
A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life on our planet.
With these new findings, researchers are closer than ever to validating a key planetary defense technique.
The crater left behind from the impact has yet to be found.
The microbes "proved very hard to kill."
The first batch of alerts from the Vera Rubin Observatory drew attention to new asteroids, supernovae, and active galactic nuclei.
Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.
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.
Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart.
Scientists have analyzed a collection of meteorites to figure out where asteroid prospectors should go first.
First it was an exoplanet. Then it became a dust cloud. Now it's bringing a cosmic revelation.
Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?
A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.
New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.
New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with Earth.
An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests.
Airplane-sized asteroid 2025 QD8 will come within roughly 136,000 miles (218,000 kilometers) of Earth on September 3.
The two bodies appear as bright specks amidst a field of stars in the Aries constellation.
At least getting crushed by a giant space rock would lead to an instant death.
