A massive asteroid named Apophis will safely pass close to Earth in 2029, creating the first opportunity in human history to ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...

Is it better to deploy a nuclear warhead on an asteroid after a deep crater impact, or a shallow impact? When you purchase ...

On Sunday, an aging Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa2, which completed its initial sample-return objective more than half a ...

"This is the first time that we've been able to predict in human history an asteroid visibly passing by the Earth." ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

NASA is launching a mission to combat '100% chance' of killer asteroids hitting Earth as it hit the tenth anniversary of ...

Loud explosions shook the Ukrainian capital, where more than 50,000 people sheltered in subway stations after authorities ...

Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10 kilometers per second. The kinetic energy is equivalent to 2 kilograms of TNT, or a fully loaded ...