The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit Earth, now has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon by 2032, possibly visible from Earth ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth could have at least six minimoons that we never knew existed. A minimoon is a small ...

Declining birth rates around the world may pose new challenges for humanity. A new book on the topic by Elon Musk–funded ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first identified by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a global network of four ...

Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

NASA scientists have set out the truth about a 220-foot asteroid hurtling 'near' Earth early next week. Naturally, talk of ...