On Saturday June 27, potentially hazardous asteroid 152637 (1997 NC1) will make its closest approach to Earth. The approach will be its closest in over 400 years, and it won’t be beaten until 2133. It ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the "city killer" asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon in 2032, to cut the risk of the collision debris destroying satellites.

Asteroid Bennu looked like a smooth, sandy body when NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope measured its thermal properties years ago. That reading suggested fine grains covering the surface, the kind of ...

In 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft into the 160-metre-wide Dimorphos asteroid, successfully altering its ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

If a deadly asteroid takes aim at Earth, the United Nations will be on the case. The UN General Assembly last week agreed to set up an International Asteroid Warning Group that will compile and share ...

We've known for some time that China was working on an asteroid monitoring system that the country also hoped to use as a means to redirect asteroids. NASA proved this was possible in 2022, when its D ...

China’s two-pronged method could blast apart an Earth-threatening space rock using a 3-megaton explosion equivalent to 200 Hiroshima bombs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The near-Earth space rock, dubbed 2024 YR4, was previously thought to have a small chance of impacting Earth. Later observations ...