Not to let Japan grab all the extraterrestrial glory, NASA completed its own seven-year OSIRIS REx mission to retrieve a sample of the asteroid Bennu — the most dangerous known asteroid in the ...

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...

It reports, names and numbers new discoveries. Multiple observatories ... working on planetary defense options in the case of a dangerous asteroid. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is back in the spotlight ... Despite a few months topping the hit list of the most dangerous asteroids, it is now certain that 2024 YR4 won’t hit our planet.

The YR4 asteroid is currently the most dangerous space object near Earth, according to NASA, and its impact on the planet would have the same power as a nuclear bomb. While the chance of an impact ...

It reports, names and numbers new discoveries. Multiple observatories ... working on planetary defense options in the case of a dangerous asteroid. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission ...

Scientists have ruled out the possibility that the asteroid, Apophis, will collide with Earth during its "exceptionally close fly-by." But in the future, there could be more dangerous asteroid ...

Nathan Moore of the Sandia National Laboratories details a possible new method to stop a dangerous asteroid from hitting the earth: a burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion. RASCOE: Perhaps ...

On each orbit, the spacecraft will spend less than a day in the dangerous radiation zone near ... Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.