The scientific community is on alert after the discovery of the asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one ...

An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...

The massive space rock with the risk of hitting Earth's surface within the next seven years has kept scientists on their toes ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

A massive asteroid discovered last month could crash into Earth and it has now triggered a planetary defence response having ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

For the first time a giant asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedure, after its revealed there is a chance, ...

A hundred-metre-wide asteroid has been placed at the top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December last year ...

Global planetary defence procedures have been triggered for the first time after a 100 metre-wide asteroid was revealed to ...