Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

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

At the time of the announcement in January, the asteroid’s impact probability was reported to exceed 1%. The impact probability describes how likely a hazardous asteroid is to hit Earth.

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 consequences. The Free Devort Impact in South Africa marks the largest ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...