The curious minds at What If explain how being trapped between two asteroid belts could pose an existential threat to Earth.

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

Did an asteroid enter Earth? Maoming in China witnessed a bright fireball meteor on Wednesday, followed by a loud boom that triggered panic among residents.

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 mission, dispatching a spacecraft to gather samples from an asteroid near to Mars. The China ...

Of the six ‘invisible threats’, three named 2020 SB, 524522, and 2020 CL1 ‘have a severe risk of collision’ as their orbits ...

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NASA officer Dr Kelly Fast is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky bodies could be on a collision course with Earth.

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to ...

Memorial Day weekend is often touted as the unofficial start of summer across the United States, but the first official day ...