The Government's response puts the UK at the forefront of asteroid impact avoidance. This is a very exciting time for British science in general, and British astronomy in particular. 'I am in no ...

Scientists say defunct satellites and spent rocket stages returning to Earth, from the thousands launched every year, can be ...

(Image: Reproduction/Medium) What makes the Great Attractor so mysterious is that its location would be in the so-called Avoidance ... by the fall of an asteroid.. Although the Tunguska event is ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...

According to a report led by planetary astronomer Andrew Rivkin of Johns Hopkins University, 2024 YR4 has a small chance of ...

NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

An huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly four percent chance of smashing into the Moon, ...

2029 — an asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is wide will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a very rare event. Apophis will not impact Earth, but could ...