NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen if a space rock really were on a collision course with our planet. The ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART mission demonstrated that deflection technology works, experts say early ...

For the last couple of years, NASA has been observing an asteroid that could be hurtling towards the moon in a matter of years. Scientists believe that Asteroid 2024 YR4 - which was discovered two ...

An asteroid the size of a 10-story building could collide with the Moon ...