She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

EARTH cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected medium-sized ...

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck stopped a Texas-sized asteroid from crashing into the Earth in the 1998 science-fiction movie “Armageddon.” But a NASA expert said recently the greatest concern isn’t the ...

Scientists have warned that around 15,000 mid sized near Earth asteroids larger than 140 metres remain undiscovered, posing potential regional devastation risks. Speaking at the American Association ...

A paternity test is pending, but Bennu and Ryugu could turn out to be long-lost twins, separated at birth by a cosmic cataclysm. New research by a University of Arizona-led team suggests the two ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

NASA is currently tracking a car-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth tomorrow, February 17, at a whopping 12,616 miles per hour. The space rock, 2026 CR2, is estimated to be about 9.7 feet across ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Jenny Graves receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, ...

Astronomers do not know where thousands of “city-killer” asteroids are, Nasa ’s head of planetary defence has admitted. Dr Kelly Fast, who leads the agency’s attempts to track near-Earth objects like ...