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Asteroids

September 2025

  • Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth.

    Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say

    Silverpit crater off Yorkshire coast was caused by cathedral-sized asteroid that set off 100-metre tsunami 43m years ago

August 2025

  • White and blue flashes of light against a black background

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    A mysterious comet is shooting through our solar system. Why are scientists so excited about 3I/Atlas?

    This ‘really fun space rock’ is only the third interstellar object to be observed. Where is it heading and can stargazers see it?

July 2025

  • Interstellar object A11pI3Z captured on 2 June

    Scientists spot mystery object believed to come from beyond solar system

    Astronomer says object could be further evidence that ‘interstellar wanderers’ are common in galaxy

June 2025

  • A small, box-like spacecraft approaching a large asteroid

    Are we doing enough to save Earth from a devastating asteroid strike?

    With our planet set for close encounters in 2029 and 2032, space scientists are getting to grips with an existential threat
  • A spacecraft approaches an asteroid in space

    Giant asteroid could crash into moon in 2032, firing debris towards Earth

    Researchers say satellites may be at risk and impact could create a spectacular meteor shower in the skies
  • Stars and gas clouds

    First images of distant galaxies captured by ‘ultimate’ telescope

    Stunning pictures from Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile released at start of 10-year survey of cosmos

April 2025

  • red earth of Mars

    ‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth

    Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existence

March 2025

  • Image of Mars with relatively small space rock in front of it

    Passing probe captures images of mysterious Mars moon

    Hera spacecraft takes photos of red planet’s second moon, Deimos, while en route to asteroids 110m miles away

February 2025

  • Nasa image of the 2024 YR4 asteroid.

    Chance of giant asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 falls to 0.0017%

  • Space image with many small bright spots and two much bigger ones.

    The Observer view: when an asteroid is hurtling to Earth, do you head for the pub or the church?

  • Asteroid2025PIXIE

    First Dog on the Moon
    Asteroids are headed this way – oh no! Are we all doomed?

  • Carrie Nugent

    The chances of this asteroid hitting Earth keep rising. But there are four reasons I’m not worried yet

    Carrie Nugent

  • China opens recruitment for ‘planetary defence force’ amid fears of asteroid hitting Earth

  • Science Weekly
    Don’t look up: is an asteroid heading for Earth? – podcast

    Podcast15:43

  • Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic

January 2025

  • A visual of Nasa's spacecraft mission to crash into asteroids that could potentially threaten Earth

    Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of collision with Earth in 2032

    Hundred-metre wide asteroid rises to top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December by automated telescope

November 2024

  • moon partially covered

    Earth’s ‘mini moon’ which may be chunk of actual moon set to disappear

    School-bus-sized asteroid known as 2024 PT5 and currently 2m miles from Earth will begin journey towards sun

October 2024

  • Leaf cutter ants carrying sections of leaves.

    Science Weekly
    How the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs made ants into farmers – podcast

    Madeleine Finlay hears from Ted Schultz, curator of ants at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, about his recent study into the origins of fungi farming in ants. He tells Madeleine about the incredibly complex way that ants cultivate and protect their fungi gardens, and how the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago could have kickstarted it all
    Podcast16:26
  • A yellow box with a large lens and two solar-panelled wings nears a large pitted rock in a dark blue sky

    European space mission to examine Nasa asteroid impact site

    Hera to measure Dimorphos space rock that Dart probe deliberately hit
  • An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth

    Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists

    Scans of underwater crater in West Africa suggest another large asteroid smashed into the planet around the same time
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