step forward in the understanding of processes of collision at such scales. It plays an essential part in estimating the energy of the impact which should be necessary, depending on its size, to ...

A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by NASA's ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

Our descendants will — at some time in the future — almost certainly need to deflect an asteroid. But it's possible that in some scenarios a nuclear blast would be necessary. Especially if we have ...