Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

China is planning to send a mission to hit an asteroid and change its orbit with a spacecraft to lower the risk of it ...

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Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

At the recent 3rd International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu), Chinese scientists proposed the concept of establishing a relatively complete detection and defense system for near-Earth ...

The threat of asteroid impacts on Earth is not fictional. To date, humans have discovered nearly 1.44 million small celestial ...

Right now, the chances of it hitting us in 2032 are small, but they’ve gone up a bit. It’s kind of wild to think about, but scientists are watching it closely. This whole thing makes you wonder about ...

Around 13,000 years ago, something dramatic happened on Earth. Mammoths, mastodons, and many other giant animals suddenly ...

Imagine hurtling through space at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour, targeting a rocky object the size of a small ...

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, showing humanity can protect itself from cosmic disasters.

For weeks, Elena Adams has been leading her team at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, through ...