The familiar script of planetary defence has been torn up. For decades, the globe's foremost space agencies operated under ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

The ESA's Hera space probe is positioned as a frontrunner in planetary defence in light of the hype surrounding 3I/ATLAS and its journey.

In late 2022, Didymos and Dimorphos will be relatively close to Earth and within 6,835,083 miles of our planet — the perfect time for the DART mission to occur. DART will deliberately crash into ...

About a year ago, a spacecraft named Hera took off with a huge task: help us figure out how to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth. It’s now roughly halfway to the Didymos asteroid system and, so far, ...

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working out ways to prevent a potential impact. Reading time 3 minutes Asteroid 2024 ...

Asteroids can sometimes be viewed as “fossils” of the solar system, containing metals like iron, nickel, and platinum that hold clues to planetary formation. At the same time, near-Earth asteroids ...