NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

The DART spacecraft launched from California in November 2021 and completed its 10-month journey when it intentionally collided the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022. Dimorphos, around 560 feet ...

How important is it to identify killer asteroids before they strike ... lately including a new privately funded program called the Asteroid Institute. Using an open-source cloud platform known ...

“You may have seen news of this asteroid online in recent davs,” said Richard Moissi, Head of the European Space Agency’s Planetary Defence Office. “There is no chance of this “city ...

Buckle up, because a mountain-sized ‘planet killer’ asteroid will fly past Earth today – quickly followed by another that was only spotted a few weeks ago. The big one, the catchily-named ...