For decades, scientists believed that life on Earth took at least a billion years to get started. The prevailing idea was ...

So if the asteroid is on the smaller end of the estimated size range—40 meters—then it will be as if a small nuclear bomb exploded ... kind of late in the game to be planning an impact mission?

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...

More damningly, it now seems that the Late Heavy ... bombardment over a brief period because they all collected rocks of a similar age. We now know that, early in Earth’s history, large impacts ...

Here’s everything you need to know about this emerging space threat including the potential impact zones. In late December 2023, an asteroid named 2024 YR4 was discovered, and now it's creating ...

So if the asteroid is on the smaller end of the estimated size range—40 meters—then it will be as if a small nuclear bomb exploded ... kind of late in the game to be planning an impact mission?

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifts off from Pad ... Maybe you've heard about the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The impact caused the Chicxulub crater, on the Yucatán ...

While the potential impact date is still ... a nuclear weapon to destroy the asteroid. In the 1998 sci-fi hit, Armageddon, Bruce Willis uses a nuclear bomb to destroy an asteroid that threatens ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

"Planes literally falling from the sky is a heavy-handed metaphor for all that’s been going on but it is, unfortunately, what ...

The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a worldwide planetary defence collaboration, issued a warning memo on January 29 after the impact probability had crossed one per cent.