NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

There is a nonzero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a ...

Asteroids and Aliens takes you on a wild ride through space in 2025, developed by JBJon and published by Jonathan Baldock. You’re a lone pilot in a galaxy crawling with danger, where asteroids tumble ...

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids from the Kuiper Belt into the planet. This approach aims to release vast amounts of water and ...

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we've missed. Thankfully if we do find one hurtling towards Earth, there's hope for humanity ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, which aims to study asteroids in the Trojan swarms orbiting Jupiter, has ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa ...