One rock, as big as a football field, careening through space on an elliptical orbit that lasts four years, suddenly found itself one of the most observed bodies in our solar system, according to NASA ...

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...

The collaboration between ESA and JAXA on the Ramses mission marks a significant advancement in international efforts to safeguard our planet. As noted by Cosmos, the mission will launch the Ramses ...

(NewsNation) — The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again, NASA says, but the chance of an actual impact is still quite slim. NASA’s ...

AMES, Iowa – Bong Wie has heard the snickers. You want to protect the Earth from asteroids? Where were you when the dinosaurs needed you? You want to be like Bruce Willis in that asteroid movie? Wie ...

These images, showing ejecta around the impacted near-Earth asteroids, were taken during the approach (with Didymos to the upper left) and departure (Didymos to the upper right) of DART's companion ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, measuring 60 metres in diameter, may strike the Moon in December 2032, potentially causing the largest ...

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...