The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to new research. Research led by Durham University ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of the collision early July 4 between a 370-kilogram projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1. This ...

An educational look at what occurs during a high-impact collision.

Motor vehicle accidents are a grim reality on our roads, often leading to catastrophic injuries and, in the worst cases, death. Among the various types of collisions, head-on collisions and side ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of multitudes of collisions. The early solar system was like a debris field ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our asteroid-sleuthing telescopes are working. "These things come through on a ...

A collision with a medium-size asteroid could create widespread “devastation” on Earth’s surface, according to a recent analysis. Writing in Science Advances, researchers used computer models to ...

Researchers have published a new "collision chain" model for the Great Impact hypothesis of our rocky inner planets' formation, and it challenges our narrative of how Venus, Earth and the Moon spent ...

At a press conference shortly before NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft smashed into an asteroid, a reporter tried to get a sense of just what would happen as a bunch of metal ...

An educational look at the physics of high-impact collisions, explaining how energy, force, and motion interact when objects collide. Iranian military mocks US for 'strategic failure' Dietitians say ...