For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

An asteroid between 130 and 300 feet wide has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — but the precise odds have been a moving target since the space rock was first detected nearly two months ago.

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

A group of scientists recently published a paper that considers options for dealing with the asteroid — one of which includes a nuclear “disruption” An asteroid may hit the moon in 2032 — and some ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

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At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...