On Wednesday, August 20, the asteroid 1997 QK1, which NASA classifies as potentially dangerous, will fly by the Earth. This was reported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), "Komersant Ukrainian ...

When I saw the news that a probe had departed for a Martian moon, the first thing that came to mind was, 'Mars again?' I ...

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Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. "Deep Impact" drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock ...

That’s one way to stop the a-rock-alypse. Chinese scientists have devised an unorthodox solution to stop a potential Doomsday asteroid from destroying Earth — by nuking the space-rock with a force ...

Astronomers have previously found a number of asteroids that look like two rocky bodies collided and stuck together. These binary asteroids include Donaldjohanson and Torifune. But Nysa – named after ...

Discovered in 2004 while traveling on an alarming potential collision course with our planet, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis is now better known as the best example yet of our world dodging a cosmic ...

La Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) informó que un enorme asteroide se aproximará a la Tierra en los próximos días. El cuerpo celeste, bautizado como 1997 NC1, viaja a una impactante velocidad de 8.9 ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in the way scientists previously thought. Reading time 3 minutes ...

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...

ORBITINDONESIA.COM – Asteroid 1997 NC1 akan melintas dekat Bumi pada 26 Juni dengan jarak sekitar 2,6 juta kilometer. NASA dan Badan Antariksa Eropa (ESA) menegaskan lintasan ini aman, tetapi kata ...