The asteroid Ceres is an ancient ocean world that slowly formed into a giant, murky icy orb.
Since Giuseppe Piazzi first observed the first and largest asteroid discovered in our solar system in 1801, astronomers and planetary ...
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Lab experiment suggests destroying massive asteroid could save Earth
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive and potentially deadly asteroid hurtling toward Earth in the future, ...
Probability of asteroid 99942 Apophis impacting Earth slightly higher than expected
An astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario has found that the odds of asteroid 99942 Apophis hitting Earth are ...
Scientists Identify Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid: Jupiter
An intense debate over which cosmic rock killed the dinosaurs has roiled scientists for decades, but a new study has ...
Final NASA tally shows spacecraft returned double the amount of asteroid rubble
NASA finally counted all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall, and that's double the rubble return goal. ...
New study supports hypothesis that asteroid strikes triggered global glaciation in the distant past
A research team has chosen a side in the "Snowball Earth" debate over the possible cause of planet-wide deep freeze ...
A skyscraper-sized asteroid will buzz Earth on Friday, passing safely within 1.7 million miles
An asteroid the size of a skyscraper will pass less than 2.7 million kilometers from Earth on Friday. Don't worry: ...
New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroid threats
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a modeling tool to evaluate the potential use of a nuclear ...
