From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above ...

Earth was grazed by a tiny asteroid last week, which passed about as close as the International Space Station (ISS). That makes it the second-closest known flyby on record. The asteroid, designated ...

The S2 mega meteorite unleashed an ancient apocalypse on Earth unlike anything we could imagine, but did it also help life ...

The year 2020 is clearly out to make its mark in a big way: a global pandemic, massive wildfires across the Western United States, huge demonstrations for social justice around the globe. Here’s ...

NASA is warning that a bus-sized asteroid named 2025 QV5 is projected to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow evening -- and won't come that close again for over 100 years. ordus - stock.adobe.com ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. EDT, NASA smashed a pint-sized spacecraft into an asteroid — and changed the course of both the space rock and planetary defense forever. The purpose of that mission, ...

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS will reach perihelion on October 29, 2025, sparking theories from alien spacecraft to ...