We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Numerical simulations already offer valuable insights. Apophis. Discovered in June 2004, the asteroid is approximately 350 meters in diameter and about 27 million tons. For a few weeks ...

Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.

Early last week, 2024 YR4 briefly broke a record once reached by the asteroid Apophis after it was first spotted in 2004. At its peak threat level, 2024 YR4 reached a 3 on the Torino Scale and had ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit.

Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...