"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 ... on the defence potential of the DART (the Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which was ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

But this is no distant celestial body - this is a massive 2,560-foot-wide asteroid heading straight for Earth. The rock is roughly the size of Didymos, a double asteroid system studied by NASA's ...

Astronomers have been closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving celestial body that could pose a potential ... defense technology with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...

Located in the northern coastal city of Yantai ... Launch Center on a trajectory to visit both an asteroid and a comet in a mission double-header. The craft arrived at Xichang last week on ...

It was September 27, 1986, and thousands of them were gathered in the city’s Public Square ... it to flying through an asteroid field. Broderick’s body was found roughly a week later; Sulzer ...

Even more recently, on June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, residents of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia ...

Troubles for the British company come just weeks after the UK division of Technicolor filed for administration. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The studio, first launched in 2001, said in ...