T he asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...

A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with so much power it dramatically and permanently reoriented the moon roughly 4 billion years ago, new research suggests. Scientists ...

Naturally, the bigger an asteroid is, the more damage it does. But there are many more small asteroids than large ones, and ...

A 60-mile wide asteroid impact on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, drastically reshaped its surface and altered its ...

Apophis is projected to pass within 20,000 miles ... predicted to come within a distance of Earth 10 times closer than the moon, according to NASA. The asteroid also won't hit our planet when ...

Kobe University HIRATA Naoyuki was the first to realize that the location of an asteroid impact on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede ..

The Virtual Telescope Project captured images of asteroid 2024 ON, set to pass Earth on September 17, 2024, at a safe ...

Between low Earth orbit and the moon, there is a region of space measuring 384,400 km (238,855 mi) wide known as Cislunar space. In the coming decades, multiple space agencies will send missions to ...

In a recent alert, NASA has highlighted the close approach of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2020 RL, which is expected to ...

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the ... 1,700 km—a quarter the Earth's radius—beneath the surface of the Earth. The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth every 27.3 ...