THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space ...

An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass ...

Santa Claus will have to be "mirroring" on his sleigh ride around the world. NASA has warned of a gigantic asteroid that will pass close to Earth on Ch ...

A Nasa spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid about 10.9 million km from Earth last month. This was a test to determine if the impact could nudge the space rock slightly off course.

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

A mass extinction is when big percentage of all species die off. The best-known mass extinction is probably the one that ...

The MailOnline reports the asteroid will go past Earth at a speed of a whopping 14,743 mph. However, you don't need to be ...

Earlier this year, an asteroid measuring 3 feet crashed over the Pacific Ocean on Oct. 22. On Sept. 4, a similarly-sized asteroid struck over the Phillippines. On Jan. 21, another asteroid hit ...

The "crash scene" surveillance team includes the ... The mission marks the next phase of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), an effort that involved smashing an asteroid system with ...

NASA’s original Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission launched in 2021. It had a science fiction concept: to crash into an asteroid to see if it could alter the path of a space rock.

None, however, pose a threat to Earth. And if they did, NASA recently proved it can take on an asteroid. In 2022, NASA crashed an autonomous spacecraft into an asteroid in the world’s first ...