Simulation of the impact of the DART spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos ...

On 15 February 2013, for example, over 1000 people were injured when a small asteroid, measuring 20 metres across, entered Earth’s atmosphere near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Most of it vaporised ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

Named after Apep, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis is a 1,100-foot-long (340 meters), peanut-shaped asteroid.

In the simulation, they came up against numerous ... But they are actually uniquely responsive: “An asteroid impact to our planet is potentially the only natural disaster humanity is capable ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...

This latest mini-moon, 2024 PT5, was discovered in August by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a ...

But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply defined as a small, rocky object that orbits the sun. Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn posted a simulation to X of ...

The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for ...

impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La Reunion. Meanwhile, the first imagery from ...