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 ...

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

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 ...

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 “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 ...

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

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 ...

But if it has a city in its crosshairs, one of the worst natural disasters in modern times will unfold. As the asteroid steams through the atmosphere, it will begin to fragment—but the bulk of ...

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 ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...

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 ...