There are many asteroid impact simulators online, but Neal Agarwal's is the state of the art. Select your asteroid, then select your target, then enjoy the toll of death and destruction. Pict…

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It's only the 9th time this has happened

Precise close approach data about Near Earth Object 2022 NF.

An astronomer discovered asteroid 2022 EB5 just two hours before it impacted Earth over the Arctic Ocean on March 11, 2022. Fortunately, it was small and burned up upon entry. The post Asteroid discovered hours before Earth impact first appeared on EarthSky.

The Hubble telescope caught these boulders from asteroid Dimorphos, following the impact by NASA's DART mission for "planetary defense." The post Boulders from asteroid Dimorphos, after spacecraft impact first appeared on EarthSky.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is set to crash into Dimorphos, a moon of the asteroid Didymos, on September 26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. EDT (23:14 UTC).

A small asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere over the Norwegian Sea before disintegrating on March 11, 2022. But this event wasn't a complete surprise: Astronomers knew it was on a collision course, predicting exactly where and when the impact would happen.

For the first time, researchers have recorded live and in atomic detail what happens to the material in an asteroid impact. The team of Falko Langenhorst from the University of Jena and Hanns-Peter Liermann from DESY simulated an asteroid impact with the mineral quartz in the lab and pursued it in slow motion in a diamond anvil cell, while monitoring it with DESY's X-ray source PETRA III.

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Here are other asteroid impact solutions considered.

The celestial crash between NASA's DART spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos is yielding spectacular pictures and data

It was at 22:48 CET on Saturday 20 January when veteran asteroid hunter Sárneczky discovered a new asteroid using the 60 cm Schmidt Telescope at Piszkéstető Mountain Station, part of Konkoly Observatory in Hungary.

In 2022 NASA embarked on a bold experiment to see if they could change an asteroid's velocity by smacking it with a ballistic probe—kind of like hitting it with a hammer. This experiment was to test a potential technique to someday deflect an asteroid on a collision course to Earth.

The DART mission to impact and move an asteroid for the 1st time will occur on September 26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. EDT. Watch here. The post DART will impact an asteroid on September 26 first appeared on EarthSky.

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The 14,000-mph impact is designed to test whether a future threatening asteroid can be nudged off course

Previously, there was an ocean in the northern lowlands of Mars which may have gone because of this impact.

Hundreds of thousands of asteroids lurk in our solar system, and while space agencies track many of them, there's always the chance that one will suddenly...

The DART mission to redirect an asteroid could be just the beginning of a robust planetary-defense program