An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass by the Earth on Christmas.

A Nasa spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid about 10.9 million km from Earth last month. This was a test to determine if the impact could nudge the space rock slightly off course.

A mass extinction is when big percentage of all species die off. The best-known mass extinction is probably the one that ...

The MailOnline reports the asteroid will go past Earth at a speed of a whopping 14,743 mph. However, you don't need to be ...

The "crash scene" surveillance team includes the ... The mission marks the next phase of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), an effort that involved smashing an asteroid system with ...

THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space ...

NASA’s original Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission launched in 2021. It had a science fiction concept: to crash into an asteroid to see if it could alter the path of a space rock.

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our planet, zipping past us twice as close as our own moon today. The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is one of the first handful of asteroids ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if an asteroid slammed into your city or town?

In such space environments, researchers say even small imbalances and slight miscoordination between the legs of such a robot can cause it to tumble and crash. “In the low-gravity environment of ...