The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight increase in the chance that it could impact the moon in 2032.

Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The central question is no longer whether an asteroid will eventually head our way, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 53–67 meter wide object discovered by Chile's ATLAS telescope in late 2024, poses a significant threat ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, measuring 60 metres in diameter, may strike the Moon in December 2032, potentially causing the largest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Asteroid 2024 YR4, until recently thought to have a chance ...

For the first time, NASA will use an actual space rock for a tabletop exercise simulating an asteroid impact in a densely populated area. The asteroid, named 2012 TC4, does not pose a threat to Earth, ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

In news that is almost straight out of Don’t Look Up but far less horrifying, an astronomer in Poland detected an asteroid on March 11. The small asteroid, only about a meter in diameter, impacted the ...

Asteroid systems, particularly binary configurations, represent dynamic natural laboratories for studying impact processes and collisional outcomes in our Solar System. Recent advances have shed light ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid ...