Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

Some asteroids are quietly speeding up or veering off their predicted paths, yet telescopes see no glowing tails or hazy comas that would mark them as comets. That mystery has turned a once obscure ...

Astronomers do not know where thousands of “city-killer” asteroids are, Nasa’s head of planetary defence has admitted.

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 ...

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

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 ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

A NASA scientist has warned that thousands of city-killing asteroids could strike Earth, and there’s currently no defense ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...