Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that has captured global attention due to its close approach predicted for the year 2029.

We've been told our Milky Way galaxy is hurtling towards an inevitable, head-on collision with its colossal neighbor, ...

These typically range from several feet to tens of feet in diameter. Orbiting the sun every ... that doesn't rule out the possibility of a collision involving smaller celestial bodies.

They range in size – from a whopping 329 miles in diameter to a comparatively measly ... “NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability ...

but some of them have been identified as objects of interest with non-negligible collision probabilities. Among them is the asteroid Bennu with a diameter of about 500 m, which, according to ...

A map is displayed from the left to the center, and the tabs on the right side display the type of meteorite, diameter, speed, and impact angle. First, we will simulate a meteorite collision with ...

A: NASA succeeded in shifting the orbit of a roughly 160-meter-diameter asteroid in 2022 through a high-speed collision with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft. Makoto ...

A collision between two ancient icy moons that ... equivalent to one third and a little under a half of Earth's moon diameter respectively), could explain the existence of those rings.

The asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million ... At nearly 3,300 miles in diameter, Ganymede is also the solar system’s largest moon—bigger even than the 3,030-mile wide planet ...

Baptistina, the scientists say, was rammed by another asteroid at least 35 miles in diameter in a violent collision about 160 million years ago. The collision showered nearby space with at least ...