An asteroid roughly the size of a house slipped past Earth on May 18, 2026, passing well inside the orbit of the Moon. The ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

China's state space agency announced a coordinated ground-and-space monitoring system for near-Earth asteroids on June 30, ...

Sometime before the end of the decade, a Chinese spacecraft could race toward a small asteroid at roughly nine kilometres per ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Tuesday that China will establish a coordinated ground- and space-based monitoring system for near-Earth asteroids to provide early warning ...

While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...

Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With more than 11,000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the coming years, as well as more than 1.2 million pieces of space debris ...

An asteroid named YR4 is on a potential collision course with the moon, with NASA estimating a 4% chance of impact in 2032. While the scenario might sound like a Hollywood plot, scientists are ...