Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact ...

A Ryugu asteroid sample has been found contaminated by terrestrial microbes, raising questions about planetary protection.

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

Asteroid expert Gretchen Benedix looks at nine asteroid disasters from movies and TV and rates them based on realism. She looks at "Armageddon" (1998), "Greenland" (2020), "Deep Impact" (1998 ...

Disaster-averting techniques are already being tested, like giving asteroids a bump to change their trajectory, as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission did successfully in 2022.

For an asteroid to actually destroy life on Earth ... "But it does have the potential to be the most devastating natural disaster known to man," explains Johnson. And, it's only a matter of ...

This was a recurring theme in the 2021 disaster film, “Don’t Look Up.” Although in the film, Earth was in danger from a long period comet instead of an asteroid, Michel says that the way the ...