Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. "Farewell, Earth!" the European Space Agency posted online. "Last week, after we successfully ...

NASA is closely watching two asteroids on a flyby path. Scheduled to pass near Earth on 15 October 2024, these celestial bodies offer exciting research prospects. While they will come close ...

However, a recent hunt for large asteroids within the Taurid Swarm, dubbed the “Doomsday” asteroid swarm, revealed fewer than astronomers expected. “Fortunately, we found that it’s likely ...

A new study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented asteroids to hopefully detect anomalies that could provide evidence of such a force. Although the study ...

Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reported that two asteroids, named 2024 TO4 and 2024 TX11, will pass Earth on Tuesday. According to the American space agency, both asteroids are the size of a ...

(Courtesy: Craig Fritz) For the first time, physicists in the US have done lab-based experiments that show how an asteroid could be deflected by powerful bursts of X-rays. With the help of the world’s ...

It's an asteroid named 2024 PT5, which entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be caught there until Nov. 25, before flying away back into the solar system. Some past mini-moons, such as this ...

In a significant move to protect Earth, NASA has revealed its strategy against "planet killer" asteroids. This initiative is inspired by the catastrophic event that led to the extinction of ...