Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Mary Robinette Kowal, who created alternate-history astronauts in her Lady ...

Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of shrapnel to impact Earth-orbiting satellites and other spacecraft, according ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

An asteroid crashing into Earth may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but experts warn it’s a real threat—and we may ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

Asteroids represent a serious hazard to Earth, past, present, and future, but will be even more of a concern to humanity as we venture out to space beyond beyond our atmosphere's protection.

Millions of people could die. Fortunately for all 8 billion of us, planetary defense—the science of preventing asteroid impacts—is a highly active field of research. Astronomers are watching ...

Very bad stuff. But we’re not helpless anymore. Like a lot of cool things, the field of asteroid defense began with a bunch of kids at MIT with brainpower to spare. In 1967, MIT professor Paul ...