An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

stargazers can find many more meteor showers to enjoy in the fall – with the caveat that most won’t match the grandeur of the Perseids, and cloud cover is prone to playing spoiler (as always).

New research has the answer. By studying the composition of meteorites that have landed over the years and the asteroids ...

The solid-state batteries hype is fading – prompting auto giants to consider alternatives NOAA releases 2024-25 winter ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

The Draconid meteor shower is an annual event in which meteors — aka “shooting stars” — appear in the sky of the Northern ...

On Tuesday and Wednesday (Oct. 8 and 9), the night skies may be peppered with "shooting stars" during the annual Draconid meteor shower. Although it's not expected to be one of the year's best ...

“For a one-nanometer fall, we can ignore Earth’s gravity for 20 millionths of a second as Z produces a burst of X-rays that sweeps over the mock-asteroid surface 12.5 millimeters ...

The team found that 70 percent of all the meteors that fall to Earth come from three families of asteroids, known as Karin, Koronis, and Massalia. These smaller meteorite families were likely created ...

That mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), shortened Dimorphos ... The spacecraft is set to reach the ...

Fortunately, the Dimorphos asteroid was no threat to Earth ... radius comparable to an advanced nuclear weapon, then it would fall, basically into the category of a weapon of mass destruction ...