THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space ...
NASA has issued an alert for asteroid 2024 YU1, a 110-ft space rock passing Earth on January 4 at 26,319 km/h.
While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...
AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it ...
The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...
XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...
The massive rock is believed to be ten storeys high and will skim past the planet at 14,743 miles per hour in the early hours ...
The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.
The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...
If Earth is going to be blown to bits by an asteroid, it'd be nice to have some advance warning – to either do something ...