It's one of the many plans the agencies have in place as part of a larger effort to build a defense to protect humanity from threats posed by asteroids and other inbound space rocks.

However apocalyptic that might sound, the fact that we can imagine 2024 YR4’s impact is by design: Space agencies—particularly NASA—have become rather good at spotting asteroids. And two ...

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets nudged into our neighborhood of space by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets. They are chunks of rock, metal or ice left over from the ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 131 and 328 feet (40 and 100 meters) wide. Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years, and they can cause severe damage to local regions ...

Here's one for the fashion-conscious retro gamers out there. Atari has teamed up with watchmaker Nubeo to release an Asteroids-themed watch to celebrate the game's 45th anniversary (even though it ...

Now, ever-improving technology at our disposal has equipped us here on Earth to better detect – and prepare for – inbound asteroids, remnants from the early formation of our solar system some ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...

“The object had a close approach with Earth,” which made it bright enough to be detected in surveys for asteroids, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Observations and data ...

The Tesla has now completed roughly 4.5 trips around the sun, traveling at roughly 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h), according to ... time that human-made objects have been mistaken for near-Earth asteroids.

Atari has released a collection of new watches with a unique design that celebrates the 45th anniversary of Asteroids. In the original version of the game that debuted in 1979, spotting and ...