New page! Make your own asteroid and launch it at Earth to see the effects. What really makes this asteroid impact simulation so intriguing and useful, though, is the amount of information that ...

It is the finding of scientists that indicates the much bigger impact about 3.3 billion years ago-most likely aiding life to thrive-throwing into yet another perspective that space rocks had in the ...

Space agencies around the world are developing defence systems to detect and track asteroids that could pose a risk to life on the Earth. They are also conducting asteroid impact simulations to ...

Two massive asteroids hit Earth ... the impacts. We expected the isotopes to shift in one direction or another, indicating warmer or cooler waters, but this did not happen. These large asteroid ...

Watch: Asteroid nearly hits Earth, lights up Siberian sky before impact (Picture credit: X) Nasa’s Scout system made predictions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near-Earth Object ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...

“These large asteroid impacts occurred and, over the long term, our planet seemed to carry on as usual.” open image in gallery In this dramatic illustration, a meteor falls toward Earth from spac ...

An asteroid detected just hours before impact with Earth burned up in a spectacular fireball over Russia last night. It’s the fourth asteroid to have been detected within just hours before ...