The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

China is planning a kinetic impact demonstration mission to test the feasibility of defending Earth against potentially hazardous asteroids, a senior space scientist revealed at an international ...

The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will compete for dominance in January skies. The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

It could be the largest lunar impact event in 5,000 years.If it hits in December 2032, asteroid 2024 YR4 — believed to be 60 ...

Deep Impact is leaving Netflix soon. Starring Elijah Wood and directed by Mimi Leder, the asteroid disaster film remains one ...

One meteorite may hold the answers space agencies have been chasing, answers that could unlock mining in deep space.

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

NASA's asteroid deflection mission made headlines for its success—but what scientists discovered in the aftermath stunned ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The “BVR-X Technical Exercise (EXTEC) test campaign, believed to have taken place earlier this month in the Natal region, involved four Gripen Es which conducted two live-firings against Leonardo’s ...