Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.
The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.
The risk of an asteroid hitting the Earth or a pandemic also exists. But the risk of China destroying our system is ...
At roughly the size of a large stadium — or several million elephants, according to ChatGPT — 2020 XR is more than capable of destroying one of our Earth cities, should the asteroid ever ...
An asteroid struck Earth on Tuesday, Dec. 3 ... fragment exploded about six miles (120 kilometers) above Siberia, destroying 830 square miles (2,150 square kilometers) of forest.
The tiny space rock, known among scientists as COWECP5, was expected to burn the through the sky at 11:14am ET as it was destroyed by Earth's the atmosphere. Thankfully, the asteroid was small in ...
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.