"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

For the first time in known history, NASA's DART mission in 2022 was able to deflect an asteroid with a kinetic impactor, ...

David Rankin, an engineer at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey Project, has worked out the "impact risk corridor" of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, based on its current path. Article continues ...

Asteroid Bennu still a concern ... The asteroid's predicted path crosses over eight major cities, including Bogotá, Lagos, Mumbai, and Chennai, putting roughly 110 million people at risk.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...

NASA / Supplied So far, scientists have only seen a small fraction of the asteroid’s orbit, which every four years goes in a wildly oblong path from ... on the asteroid Bennu and returned ...

Our understanding of the asteroid's path improves with every observation ... Asteroid 2024 YR4 orbits the sun on an elliptical orbit - meaning one that its elongated and not perfectly circular.

Experts predict an asteroid's chance of impact by mapping out all possible paths based on its current ... smaller than the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu, which experts have given a less than ...

After their flight was scrubbed on Wednesday, four astronauts successfully lifted off, which will allow two NASA astronauts to return to Earth after an unexpected extended stay in orbit.

A NASA scientist has predicted exactly where the "city-killer" asteroid could strike Earth. The space rock is currently believed to be up to 90 metres wide and has a one-in-43 chance of smashing ...