A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist.NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, ...
The asteroid, discovered in 2004, is estimated to be about the size of the Eiffel Tower.
Just before 9 a.m. EDT on March 17, a meteor entered the atmosphere over Lake Erie and caused a sonic boom recorded on video ...
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley's comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun ...
ExLabs is proposing ’Apophis EX,’ designed to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis during its rare 2029 Earth flyby.
There are tens of thousands of near-Earth objects (NEOs) that represent some of the most easily accessible resources in the ...
"NASA's planetary defense budget is less than one percent of the total space agency. That's not enough to ever do anything." ...
"It doesn't present any danger to anyone, though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware ...
Space is full of rocks. Most of them quietly mind their own business, drifting on orbits that will never come anywhere near ...
Using the shortcut found by tracking the asteroid, it would take just 153 days to get to Mars and return to the Earth.