In this video, we compare an SLR camera to a 60,000 PSI waterjet cutter, exploring their capabilities and the impact on various materials. Features include cutting through a Springbok antelope skull, ...

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

A NASA probe orbiting an asteroid over 100 million miles from Earth will make a perilous attempt on Tuesday to snatch a sample from the celestial body’s rocky surface to bring home the space agency’s ...

Asteroid 2025 TF zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car, it ...

By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be just a few years away from colliding with the moon, and such an impact could have ...

Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 ...

Tiny pieces of glass found scattered across Australia have revealed evidence of a previously unknown giant asteroid impact. This discovery centers on a new type of tektite, a natural glass formed when ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this bygone cataclysm consist of tektites—a type of natural glass that forms ...

Scientists are still concerned that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon in the future One of the solutions suggested is nuking the asteroid to save the moon Scientists say the plan to use nuclear ...

Natural glass found only in Australia could be evidence of an unknown, ancient asteroid impact, researchers say. A new analysis of impact-created "tektites" points to a powerful collision millions of ...