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

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 ...

NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep ...

Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

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

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

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 ...

The American Apophis Strategy is simple, powerful, and cost-effective: keep OSIRIS-APEX on track and unleash Janus through a public-private partnership. This would put the U.S. in the lead — not just ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / or ...