ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

A dramatic YouTube simulation created by 3D animation wizard ... The moon, unfortunately, could also be in the asteroid’s path; Rankin calculated that it has a 0.3% chance of sustaining a ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

YR4 were to strike Earth, the energy released could be equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT, capable of devastating an area the size of Washington, D.C ...

AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

A new simulation of the asteroid's path also presents a slim possibility that it could hit the moon instead of Earth. Dr Rankin's calculations suggest that there is a one in 333 chance that 2024 ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.

Find out with this simulator Johnson said asteroids this size hit about every one thousand years, and an asteroid the size of a car hits Earth every year, usually over unpopulated areas like the ...