Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

An asteroid exploded over France two years ago in a rare single explosive event, raising concerns about future planetary defence from certain types of these rocky bodies. On 13 February 2023, a small ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

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An international team of researchers studying dust samples retrieved by the Hayabusa-2 space probe, has found that some of its dust grains are older than the solar system. In their paper published in ...