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

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

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

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Millions of student loan borrowers hoping to enroll in an Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plan or switch to a different option ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. The asteroid was first discovered in late 2024 and reported when it surpassed the 1% ...

Astronomers first noticed that the asteroid was hurtling towards Earth ... and a terrifying simulation showed what the impact might look like. Physicists drew up a potential impact zone, cutting ...

NASA has repeatedly changed estimates on whether a huge Big Ben-sized asteroid first spotted last year will crash into Earth ...

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 ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...