Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...
The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the ...
Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding beliefs, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact.
The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...
First discovered on May 24, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) reached its perihelion on October 8, 2025. It will be closest to Earth on November 25, 2025, ...
A Japanese astronomer captured two lunar impact flashes — caused by meteor strikes on the moon — just two days apart on video ...
Daichi Fujii has logged about 60 impacts on the Moon since 2011, giving astronomers fresh data on asteroid strike rates.