A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

“What keeps me up at night is the asteroids we don’t know about," said NASA's planetary defense chief.

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the public about the threats space rocks pose to Earth.

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the ...

Earth cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, ...