Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by ...

NASA plans to blast "planet killer" asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft - or even a nuke. The space agency boffins have been quietly simulating a response to an out-of-space strike ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

Armageddon may be a bombastic work of fiction. But planetary defense is ... technologies that can either deflect Earthbound asteroids or vaporize them entirely. And it will probably surprise ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events—and possibly even individual asteroids. In turn, they build our understanding of the events that ...

Here’s how it works. A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of ...

Trojan asteroids are a class of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrange Point in a planet’s orbit around the sun. According to NASA, a Lagrange Point is essentially a position in space where ...