Three spacecraft are set to intercept and study the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, which will have a close encounter with Earth in 2029. This 340-meter-wide asteroid will make a close but ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

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NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope Project. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Gianluca Masi / Virtual Telesc ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) asteroid Apophis is set for a close but non-threatening brush with Earth on Friday, April 13 ...

NASA is investing significant resources into asteroid defence, but its new protective system could have unintended ...

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Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

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 ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...