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The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere, and while it wasn’t dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected ...

This advancement could provide crucial early warnings about incoming asteroids, allowing for timely intervention or acceptance of our fate.

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

An ancient asteroid collision probably triggered the expansion of life on Earth Around 3.3 billion years ago, life on Earth was very different from what it is today. Only simple, single-celled ...

Even if they were PHAs, this classification doesn't necessarily mean an asteroid is actually at risk of hitting our planet. "The 'potentially hazardous' designation simply means over many ...

In September 2022, the Nasa Dart mission hit the small asteroid moon Dimorphos and changed its trajectory, as the first test of “kinetic impactor” technology designed to deflect asteroids.

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched an augmented reality app meant to adverstise the Hera mission to the Dimorphos ...