Climatic and ecological consequences Responses to dust injections of 400 million tonnes from a Bennu-type asteroid impact ... by running several impact simulations with a state-of-the-art Earth system ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and an average wavelength (from one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 ...

Five years ago this week, the World Health Organization called the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In the United States, officials declared a national emergency, triggering travel bans for non-U.S ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in ... compositions and look at their physical constraints.

A recent study models an alternate version of our solar system, one where an extra planet, rather than an asteroid belt, formed between Mars and Jupiter. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Could a giant planet ...

A huge space rock, dubbed by the US space agency NASA as Asteroid 2025 DU2 is rushing toward a close encounter with Earth and it is set to happen today. Not only is this a massive 150-foot asteroid, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

NASA warns of asteroid 2025 DU2, a 160-ft space rock travelling at 62,650 km/h. An asteroid nearly the size of a 16-story building is hurtling toward Earth at a staggering speed of 62,650 km/h. Named ...

The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. California startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on Feb. 26, on the same SpaceX ...