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

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

"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.

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

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

but just another out of the 35,000 “near-Earth asteroids” out there that could become dangerous, said Sherry Fieber-Beyer, ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth’s vicinity, including 973 “planet killers” of more than half a mile in ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

DU2, measuring 160 feet wide and travelling at 62,650 km/h, will pass Earth on March 6 at a safe distance of 542,000 km.

The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...