Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...

The bold question-askers at What If explain how NASA planned for an asteroid that had a 1-in-2,700 chance of impact.

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

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A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely way in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur ...