NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

That creates a constant risk of collision for active satellites and for the International Space Station — a problem so severe that several surveillance networks across the globe ...

Or we could build a satellite to send to 2024 YR4, he says, similar to ESA’s Ramses satellite – due to travel to observe the asteroid Apophis, which is set to pass close to Earth in 2029. A final ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

Science. Earthquake in the field of quantum physics after the shape of electrons is revealed Science. New type of duck-billed dinosaur found in China opens door to future discoveries There is a ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

If the decision is made to push the asteroid off its current course, the most likely option would be using a 'kinetic impactor' to push it aside by ramming a satellite into the asteroid as fast as ...

This would pose no threat to people on Earth, but would generate a sizable impact crater on our planet's only natural satellite. A 10 metre-wide asteroid broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia ...

similar to ESA’s Ramses satellite – due to travel to observe the asteroid Apophis, which is set to pass close to Earth in 2029. A final decision on what to do about 2024 YR4 probably won’t ...