NASA has been working on a planetary defence system with the goal of keeping us safe from a big asteroid that could kill us ...

Scientists estimate the waves reached an unfathomable 2.5 miles high as they crashed into the land masses of the day.

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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On November 1, 2023, Lucy will get a close-up view of a small main-belt asteroid to conduct an engineering ...

True Anomaly, a startup backed by US senator JD Vance's VC firm, plans to launch prototype pursuit satellites on a SpaceX ...

Rubble pile asteroids are extremely shock resistant which may explain how they've stayed together for almost as long as the ...

Scientists say the “ejecta” was largely generated by the asteroid’s recoil from being hit by a DART spacecraft in September. “The investigation team has been digging into the implications ...

If you're looking for some unalloyed good news, you've come to the right place. This week we've got astronauts of exceptional ...

Extinction-event asteroids are a periodic occurrence, just like the tides or the full moon; just ask the dinosaurs. That's why the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spent so much ...

There were fears that the massive asteroid 367789 (2011 AG5) could potentially impact the Earth between 2040 and 2047, but later NASA calculations found it unlikely.