A bus-sized asteroid is currently racing toward Earth’s vicinity, catching the close attention of astronomers. While not a ...
When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...
At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...
Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...