Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. In the foreground, fragments of ice and rock fly away from the collision and will later cross in ...

The researchers created the numerical simulations using smoothed particle hydrodynamics software, considered the basis for a wide range of planetary collision studies, to model different scenarios ...

Police have since opened a criminal investigation into the collision and arrested a man on suspicion of “gross negligence manslaughter.” Meanwhile, environmental groups have warned of ...

Had countless science fiction stories of asteroids discovered on a collision course with Earth ... quipped Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science who studies asteroids, in an ...

Applicants must be younger than 35 and “maintain a firm political stance” in line with the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, the job listing said.

Pluto and Charon formed from a “kiss and capture” collision, a new study from the University of Arizona reveals, rewriting theories of planetary formation. Unlike catastrophic impacts ...

For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...

Being heartbroken for 2 months fades in comparison to Pluto’s heart that has been broken for billions of years! Pluto’s mesmerizing heart was captured for the first time in 2015 by NASA’s ...

China has started recruiting personnel for a planetary defence force amid reports ... the space rock was given a 1.3 per cent chance of collision with Earth which was nearly doubled to 2.3 per ...

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team after a giant ... AFP The odds of a collision with between the asteroid and our planet have been slashed to a 1-in-43 chance. The giant boulder ...