Researchers have developed a computer simulation of asteroid collisions that initially sought to replicate model asteroid strikes performed in a laboratory. After verifying the accuracy of the ...

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) conducted a new asteroid simulation to show the thing needed to destroy an approaching, giant heavenly body that could lead to Earth's destruction.

A nuclear bomb might one day deflect an asteroid and save Earth from a disaster. Here’s how the lab simulation went: Before the asteroid could threaten the peaceful blue planet below, a powerful pulse ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was likely ...

Scientists might've finally discovered why some space rocks exhibit magnetic fields that shouldn't exist. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Most of the meteorites that land on Earth today can be traced back to just three recent collisions out in the asteroid belt, according to a pair of recent studies. It’s hard to trace meteorites back ...

While rumors swirl about the asteroid Apophis smashing into Earth and ending all life as we know it are not very comforting, the truth is that scientists currently don't believe that there's a high ...

Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, ...

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Mikael Granvik is in the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland, and in the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of ...