SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth.

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas ...

A supposed asteroid turned out to be a Tesla model flying through space as a PR stunt. Such mix-ups are increasingly becoming ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

Elon Musk’s personal red Roadster was affixed to the rocket’s top stage and sent into an elliptical orbit around the Sun as part of a test mission. The vehicle, which had a mannequin called “Starman” ...

although recent research suggests a more distant nuclear explosion could produce enough X-ray radiation to push an asteroid off a collision course. Waiting for additional observations in 2028 ...

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to ... to issue a statement calling for clarity in tracking spacecraft and spent rocket stages in orbit, as well as for interplanetary ...

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company sent the car (with a spacesuit-clad mannequin ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

Astronomers have been left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid — only to realize ... into space on board a SpaceX rocket in 2018, highlights a growing problem ...