NASA tracks the locations and orbits of roughly 28,000 asteroids by scanning the entire night sky every 24 hours. The space agency has estimated the trajectories of all these near-Earth objects ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms that two large asteroids, named 2020 GE and 2024 RO11, will safely pass by Earth on ...
An asteroid hurtling toward Earth could be deflected without a spacecraft ever touching it.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued fresh alert on two asteroids approaching Earth.
Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.
You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...
Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...
Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests. By Becky Ferreira If you were to look up from Earth ...