The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says ... the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a ...

The spacecraft is set to spend a little under a year traveling to an asteroid called 2022 OB5, which next year is expected to travel within about 403,000 miles (649,000 kilometers) of Earth.

Using limited observational data, the International Asteroid Warning Network published a warning ... 2024 YR4 orbits the sun every four Earth years, so it passes relatively close to Earth once ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The asteroid was originally discovered in Dec. 2024 and the International Asteroid Warning Network ... hitting us in seven years.

To NASA’s credit, defenses have significantly improved in recent years. The agency has created ... Most spectacularly, in 2022, its Double Asteroid Redirection Test smashed a spacecraft into ...