Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

Microsoft recently offered a way to talk to Hera deep space probe using Azure OpenAI. We asked it about aliens so you don't ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

It may be hard to think about sweltering temperatures in early March but excessive heat watches and warnings are getting a ...

The most realistic response, which has been done, is to catalogue them. We know that about 95% of the dangerous asteroids have been catalogued. “These things will come back, and that’s the point,” ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth’s vicinity ... Although YR4 no longer poses a threat, it’s increasingly clear that Earth inhabits a dangerous neighborhood. Keeping out of harm’s ...