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From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...
A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! It was detected July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Most known ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Varvara Tupkalenko's two sons played with miniature cars like most other boys their age. Today ...
Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...
An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...