This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one ...

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 ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and dust. These objects move on .

Around 15,000 mid-sized asteroids, known as 'city-killers', are unaccounted for as they zoom around space close to planet Earth - with the potential to cause devastating damage ...

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

NASA has raised red flags over growing asteroid threats that could potentially damage the Earth.To one’s surprise, ...

For the past two decades, NASA has focused on identifying 90% of near-Earth objects that could pose a threat to our planet. The space agency has made steady progress in detecting dangerous asteroids ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned in new research. The giant space rocks are believed ...

"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.