A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear bombs at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the moon in 2032.
In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous ...
With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...
Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun and were typically formed during the solar system's development ...
A new study has warned that a group of 'invisible' asteroids that orbit the Sun could pose a serious threat to Earth ...
They found that Venusian co-orbitals are highly unstable, often switching orbital patterns in cycles lasting about 12,000 ...
Astronomers are observing asteroid 2024 YR4. It may hit the Moon in 2032. A lunar impact could send debris toward Earth. This ...
Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...
Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...
Picture this: a 'city killer' asteroid is hurtling through space, and its trajectory has it on a collision course. Thankfully ...
New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.
An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...