Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...
From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...
An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists consider the chance extremely small.
DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, p ...
Named for the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis is capable of destroying a city if it were to strike ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...