Already, space agencies are testing the procedures and technologies needed to neutralize an asteroid’s threat. In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft will slam into a roughly 560-foot-wide moonlet ...

The theoretical Nadir impactor would have been comparable in size to the asteroid Bennu, which has a 1-in-1,750 chance of colliding with Earth over the next three centuries, making it one of the ...

In 2022, both Elon Musk and NASA issued serious warnings about the potential threat of a massive asteroid on a collision course with Earth. While asteroids passing near our planet are not uncommon ...

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A huge asteroid, 2025 JR, has caught the world’s notice because it is on a course for a close approach to Earth. About the same size as a 25-storey building, the space rock will make its closest ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing ...

An asteroid named 2025 JR, measuring 250 feet across and moving at 40,800 km/h, will make its closest approach to Earth on Wednesday. A massive asteroid the size of a 25-story building is zooming ...

Politecnico di Milano Department of Aerospace Science and Technology’s Francesco Topputo and Fabio Ferrari said: "Being part of the Apophis mission is a tremendous honour. We are developing ...

Today, May 26, asteroid “2025 KT1” will miss Earth by 1,240,681 miles. And four more are coming this week, about the size of a house. Last Thursday, “2025 KH” flew past Earth with a ...

A bus-sized asteroid known as "2025 KH," measuring around 37 feet in diameter, soared past the Earth on Thursday morning at over 25,000 miles per hour, coming as close as within 687,000 miles from ...

Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.