China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked ...

Their synchronised orbit with Venus means they could intersect Earth’s path at any time. Of particular concern is their ...

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

that measure over 65 feet in diameter and have a 1% or greater chance of deep impact. According to the scale, this asteroid is a “close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers” and boasts ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December ... That’s fortunate because if YR4 were to strike home, the deep impact would release an energy blast equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT — roughly ...

Observatories on Earth like the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex ... high or low, that the asteroid could impact the planet within the next century, using every new observation of the ...

The other, called Vallis Schrödinger, is about 168 miles (270 km) long and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) deep. The impact occurred during ... larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ...

Picture: ¿@asteroiddave.bsky.social¿ The moon, unfortunately, could also be in the asteroid’s path; Rankin calculated that it has a 0.3% chance of sustaining a deep impact. Unlike the Earth ...

“And in the deep ocean, an impact would have no severe consequences either.” Though astronomers say Asteroid 2024 YR4 is highly unlikely to hit Earth, “the situation is significant enough to ...

A: Shows Earth's environment pre-impact, with green photosynthetic life on the surface and iron (Fe2+) in the deep ocean ... Barberton Greenstone Belt. The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 ...