"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

On that fateful day, an asteroid detonated above the remote Siberian wilderness in Russia, unleashing a force equivalent to 185 atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. The blast leveled ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically ...

Horn cited whistleblower claims that the official calculations may have been manipulated and that the asteroid could still ...

The aerospace agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) audited the Planetary Defense plan and on Tuesday published the ...

YR4 might collide with the Moon in 2031, with a 4.3% chance of impact, according to NASA's updated calculations.

A NASA mission led by the University of Arizona is at risk of cancellation, putting groundbreaking asteroid research and ...

After Rosetta, DART and Hera, Politecnico di Milano is preparing for a return to deep space. In 2028, the university will take part in the European Space Agency’s RAMSES mission to study Apophis which ...