Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...
NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our ...
Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...
New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...
A rock the size of a 30-story building is hurtling towards Earth. Travelling 20 times faster than a bullet, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3 per cent chance of hitting us in 2032, roughly the same ...
To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...
Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...
China has unveiled its mission to impact deliberately a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 – a decisive step toward establishing its ...
Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...
F or more than two decades, the Silverpit crater, a strange circular depression hidden under the North Sea, has baffled ...
CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...