And I had always heard that Jupiter protected us from asteroids, not that it launched them at the Earth.

This image shows a large ring structure positioned within an asteroid field in deep space. It highlights a futuristic space ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

A small, dark and rigid space rock that touched down at the Field Museum this month could hold the answers to the origin of life in the universe, researchers say. The rock is just a portion of a ...

An asteroid the size of a football field will whiz notably close to Earth on Sunday. Dubbed 2017 BS5, the asteroid was first identified earlier this year, and scientists expect it to pass within ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid.

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

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