Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave off armageddon in the future. Instead of stargazing with a traditional ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Although Thursday's routes do mark the closest recorded Earth approaches to date for these asteroids, their paths are still quite far away, too distant for any human to spot one of them zooming ...

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will ... the orbits of Near Earth Objects to a high precision when they get bright enough to spot and so we know for certain ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Scientists know that the vast majority of meteorites that come crashing down to Earth originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt: a region between Mars and Jupiter where irregularly ...

While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this visit ... like TheSkyLive and Stellarium can help you try to spot 2023 DZ2 later this week as it brightens and appears ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...