Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

Of the thousands of space rocks whizzing through the solar system, there is one that has astronomers more worried than any other. Astronomers predict that the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu has a one ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high ...

Gordon Osinski receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation ...