During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense ...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

But there could be another asteroid like YR4 - or worse - lurking in our blind spot, an astronomer has warned. The problem is, we still don't have the tech to let us search the space between Earth ...

The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth ... As powerless as we may sometimes feel against natural disasters—especially ones as extreme as the universe hurling a space rock at Earth’s ...

When it comes to natural disasters, most are impossible to predict ... However, one of the few for which we can be truly ready is an asteroid strike. While nobody has found any large asteroids ...

Unlike most natural disasters, asteroid collisions are preventable, if there are tools to keep track of space rocks and act in self-defense if needed. Building out Earth’s planetary defense tool ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4 ...