A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists conducted simulations showcasing the potential of nuclear warheads to neutralize ...

Scientists have suggested burying a nuclear bomb inside of an asteroid to help save us from destruction. That is the recommendation of a new study that examines the options we have if an asteroid is ...

The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life, and new research suggests it lasted for millions of years longer than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dinosaurs that survived the asteroid crash were 'baked or fried' by the heat trapped underneath the resultant dust cloud - ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit. The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth. But by crashing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A near-Earth asteroid will make a very close flyby of Earth ...

The first few billion years of Earth's history saw the rise of life, the atmosphere and the oceans. Still, that time is shrouded in mystery: Not many rocks remain that preserve a record of those early ...

The giant asteroid Apophis will make a historically close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029. Scientists have ruled out any risk of Apophis hitting Earth for at least the next century. The 2029 flyby ...