NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

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

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to less than 1 per cent.

Asteroid Psyche (Illustration). The worldwide astronomy community is paying close attention to this asteroid and any others that could potentially impact the planet using multiple telescopes as ...

Stock photo: A model of the metal-rich asteroid named Psyche is displayed at the media center in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 10, 2023. Stock photo ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

A much more capable mission, NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche spacecraft, is currently on its way to an asteroid bearing the same name by 2029. Astronomers think the asteroid may be a fragment of a ...

Astronomers around the world have trained their telescopes toward an asteroid they believe has a minimal, but not insignificant, chance of hitting Earth in just under 8 years. Though space ...