The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 NV16, the cosmic ...

Earth would not have been a nice place for humans 3.26 billion years ago. There was not much oxygen for a start. There was ...

What was the secret recipe?” Did a Second Asteroid Hit During Dino Extinction? Water, for example, is one of those ingredients. While it can be found throughout the solar system, not all water is ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...

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D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

Intense debate has erupted online after a video of an emotional fan at the recent Diljit Dosanjh concert in New Delhi went viral. In the clip, a woman is seen crying and jumping f ...