Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

In the late 1960s, a group of graduate students at MIT took on an extraordinary challenge: figuring out how to stop an ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

California-based TransAstra is testing an inflatable “Capture Bag” that comes in different sizes and is intended to catch ...