Dr Kelly Fast is the space agency’s acting NASA Planetary Defense officer and will explain the technologies being created to ...

On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

This year’s Cannes Film Festival will see a raft of veteran attendees such as Wes Anderson go toe to toe with art-house ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

A massive asteroid heads toward Earth with increasing impact probability for 2032. NASA deploys the James Webb Telescope to ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

As the night sky unfolds, a subtle yet captivating smudge of stars emerges high above at sunset. Known as the Beehive Cluster ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

Astronomers only just discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 late last year, but it has already become the most hotly observed solar system traveler. That’s because it was initially believed it would have a ...