NASA is currently tracking a car-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth tomorrow, February 17, at a whopping 12,616 miles per hour. The space rock, 2026 CR2, is estimated to be about 9.7 feet across ...

Somewhere, out in the cold depths of space, there is a space rock that could destroy a large chunk of life on Earth. Is this fate inevitable? Could we find a way to stop it, or will we eventually ...

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Scientists have found evidence that amino acids, the chemical building blocks of life (specifically proteins), formed on the asteroid Bennu when it was so far from the Sun as to be frozen. This ...

More space technology must be developed to prevent "city-killing asteroids" from hitting Earth, experts recommended at a recent science conference. While the risk is low, mid-size asteroids near Earth ...

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck stopped a Texas-sized asteroid from crashing into the Earth in the 1998 science-fiction movie “Armageddon.” But a NASA expert said recently the greatest concern isn’t the ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached Vesta in 2011, it found a 500-kilometer-wide world scarred by two planet-scale impacts. One crater stretches over 100 kilometers across and rises 20–25 kilometers ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

Our planet is currently defenseless against “city killer” asteroids, noting “we don’t know where they are,” a leading scientist has warned this week. Astronomer Kelly Fast, NASA’s planetary defense ...

Ever been to an event that's 85 million years in the making? That's how long ago an asteroid struck the area we know as Wetumpka. The collision made one heck of a dent. The impact crater is five miles ...