The researchers used NASA data to work out that there is a one in 156,000 chance of an individual being killed by an asteroid ...

SMU-led researchers used fossils and seismic images to trace Louisiana’s history around the time the dinosaur-killing ...

Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for ...

Scientists have revealed just how much you need to worry about everything from elephant attacks and lightning strikes to ...

A new study finds that dying from an asteroid impact is more likely than dying from rabies, though both are rare. The ...

In a new paper, to get a better grasp on the risk of an asteroid impact and put it in context with other risks, astronomers ...

The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / or ...

This score means that it’s likely to have been engineered instead of being a naturally occurring force.

Large clusters can track light changes across the night sky, making it possible to catch asteroids as they transit above the ...

NASA's Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Fast-Spinning Asteroid This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space ...

Since 2017, three interstellar objects have been spotted passing through our solar system: 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov… and just ...