Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An asteroid is seen flying near the Earth, specifically near the Middle East, in this artistic illustration. (photo credit: ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, ...
A NASA scientist has warned that thousands of city-killing asteroids could strike Earth, and there’s currently no defense ...
"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.
She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to ...
This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one ...
LOS ANGELES – There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening ...
A new study from the University of São Paulo in Brazil said some asteroids orbiting Venus “can pose a collisional hazard to Earth” benmoss/Getty Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could ...
A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...