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 ...

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 ...

"The implication for planetary defense is that small, rubble-pile asteroids, like Dimorphos, are very efficient to deflect, and the kinetic impactor technique would be an appropriate deflection ...

An illustration of the DART spacecraft next to the asteroid, Dimorphos, and the larger asteroid it orbits, Didymos. NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid ...