Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first detected on December 27 last year. The probability of a "city-killer" asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 just increased to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, according to NASA, and a chilling ...

One of the NEAs, 99942 Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, is arriving on (of all the freaking dates) Friday the 13th in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 60 metres long, may hit the Moon in December of the year 2032. Scientists assured that Earth is ...

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi tests how to move around on a simulated asteroid wall. Takuya Onishi (JAXA) and Shannon Walker (NASA) practice moving along a translation line tied to an anchor on the ...

Of the thousands of space rocks whizzing through the solar system, there is one that has astronomers more worried than any other. Astronomers predict that the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu has a one ...

Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The central question is no longer whether an asteroid will eventually head our way, ...

The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3. The TianWen-2 spacecraft mainly focuses on ...

A mile-wide asteroid traveling at 48,000 mph is set to pass close to Earth Saturday -- cosmically speaking. What makes this huge asteroid even more interesting is that it has its own moon. Asteroid ...

Sixty-six million years ago, this asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the life on our planet. Including the ...

Fig. 6. The main simulation results of TianWen-2 sampling on an asteroid regolith surface. (A) The position of mainbody in landing site frame. (B) The attitude of mainbody relative to landing site ...

Enter the new era in iPhone Apps. 3D stereographic simulation. Challenge yourself in this simulation of an destructive asteroid field caused by a planetoid explosion. How long can you survive? A ...