NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen ...
The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...
A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...
If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...
This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...
NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...