ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is being keenly watched by ... Astronomers have posted simulation of the expected impact corridor of 2924 YR4. It is based on NASA's assessment, as reported by Scientific ...

While the likelihood of a strike remains low, a newly released simulation of the asteroid’s potential impact is going viral, which showcases the devastating effect it could have on a city.

Among them is the asteroid Bennu with a diameter of about 500 m, which—according to recent studies—has an estimated chance of 1 in 2,700 of colliding with Earth in September 2182. This is ...

Find out with this simulator Johnson said asteroids this size hit about every one thousand years, and an asteroid the size of a car hits Earth every year, usually over unpopulated areas like the ...

The latter would see a spacecraft launch into the trajectory of the asteroid to knock it off its path. On Friday, a chilling simulation showed what would happen if the city-killing asteroid did ...

The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over ... risks to gain experience that can't be acquired through simulation or planning alone," the company wrote in today's update.

THE massive asteroid YR4 now has a greater chance of ... a 1.2mile-wide crater into the Earth's crust, and a terrifying simulation shows what the impact might look like. The strike would have ...