On February 10, 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a significant contract to OHB Italia for the development of the ...

NASA confirms the flyby of a 410-foot asteroid, 2025 YU15, moving at a speed of 21,306 miles per hour today. Despite its proximity, scientists assure it poses no immediate threat.

Asteroid 2025 YU15 will sweep past Earth at remarkable speed this February, drawing global attention and raising questions about how closely scientists are watching the next celestial visitor.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

ALE Co., a Tokyo-based startup developing artificial meteor showers, has announced that it has launched a new satellite and ...

Friday the 13th fills some people with dread. Why do so many think the day is unlucky? Turn your luck around with free food ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

Friday the 13th fills some people with dread. Why do so many think the day is unlucky? Turn your luck around with free food ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty / Futurism Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they ...

An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a 15‑story building has a small but serious chance of slamming into the Moon in 2032, ...

Nasa is looking at several options, like crashing a probe into the asteroid to nudge it off course, but that plan was later deemed "impractical" because of constraints such as not knowing the object's ...