Germany holds an election on Sunday that is likely to result in another uneasy coalition if the far right polls highly as ...

NASA and Blue Origin are now in talks for a new launch date for that mission, no earlier than spring 2025. Lucy spacecraft flies by asteroid: April 20 NASA launched the Lucy spacecraft on a grand ...

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

NASA’s Mars mission has reached a huge milestone with the first four people sent to the Red Planet. In this video, we explore ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4 ...

15 (UPI) --NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike ... SpaceX launch site in Texas for Pandora mission launch Feb. 11 (UPI) -- NASA's Pandora ...

Andrews cautioned that a similar strategy might not be effective in this case, citing NASA's 2022 DART mission, which successfully changed the orbit of a smaller asteroid. “If we try to deflect ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific discussions recently, especially after researchers analysed surface samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While much of the ...

There's a small chance that the asteroid could collide with Moon. While scientists have doubled the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032, new calculations show that there was a ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid big enough to destroy a whole city. As experts learn more about asteroid 2024 YR4's trajectory, they've confirmed that the odds of impact ...