A Spacecraft Is on Its Way to a Harmless Asteroid Slammed by NASA in a Previous Save-The-Earth Test CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a ...

In April 2029, a 20-million ton asteroid once thought to pose a potentially catastrophic collision risk with the Earth will fly by our home. Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos and evil ...

It turns out these insects have been some of the world’s tiniest farmers for 66 million years, thanks in part to the asteroid that struck Earth and set off a chain of events that led to the ...

With that in mind, the Blu-ray releases for Alien: Romulus are now available to pre-order and the cover on its 4K Steelbook is pretty fantastic. At the time of writing you can grab the Alien ...

It’s been almost 25 years since Bruce Willis, playing the fictional character Harry Stamper in the blockbuster movie, Armageddon, saved Earth from an asteroid careering towards the planet.

Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, another mission to map the space rock is about to launch. The data it collects will refine Earth’s planetary defences ...

An asteroid around 140 meters (460 feet) wide—which is a little smaller than Dimorphos but could still take out a major city—hits our home planet around every 20,000 years.

urope's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...

It's well known that the reign of the dinosaurs came to an end when a giant asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago. But a new study suggests that this huge asteroid wasn't alone.

Leaping locomotion has been used to explore asteroids before. In 2018, Japan deployed hopping rovers on a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu, including the Germany-France developed Mobile Asteroid ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

Ant agriculture began 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs Date: October 3, 2024 Source: Smithsonian Summary: According to a new study, colonies of ants ...