The world's first private spaceraft built to visit an asteroid is slowly tumbling in space and the outlook is dire. The ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock—named "2025 DJ22"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

While many astrologers, seers and mystics are predicting a hopeful future. If you believe Nostradamus, you better start ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks ...

Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, 2032.

Several strategies could potentially be employed to prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth. In 2022, NASA conducted the world’s first successful planetary defence test by deliberately crashing a ...

The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind, altering its orbit around its larger companion asteroid.

In September 2022, NASA demonstrated that it was possible to nudge an incoming asteroid out of harm's way by slamming a spacecraft into it as part of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

Space agency NASA have confirmed the possibility that an asteroid could collide with Earth in just seven years. The chance that the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, could hit the earth is 1 in 43, a 2.3% ...

A most viable solution at present is launching a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid at high speed, altering its orbit to avoid Earth. In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission ...