Earth has a variety of islands and bodies of water that resemble a heart. ESA takes you on a tour. Credit: ESA ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

Space stations around the world are urgently collaborating to tackle the threat of a vast asteroid, hurtling towards Earth.

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China is assembling a 'planetary defence' team to monitor asteroids as fears grow over the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is ...

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace ...

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The tech billionaires could collaborate on a "humanity-saving" moon base in case an asteroid hits Earth, Douglas MacKinnon ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

And as astronomers gather more data, it will look like the asteroid has a higher chance of hitting Earth—but in all probability, they’ll eventually get enough information to say for sure that ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...