Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 XM15, will approach Earth on January 7, 2026 and NASA reports that this ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That’s easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

NASA’s asteroid trackers have just watched a school‑bus‑sized space rock make a safe, distant pass by our planet, part of a ...

In Professor K.T. Ramesh's First Year Seminar, Defending the Planet: How to Stop an Asteroid, four years have passed in only two months. By the end of the semester, it will be 2036 and a simulated ...

An asteroid has the possibility of hitting the moon in the future, and one of scientists' solutions is launching a nuclear weapon at the rogue rock. Yes, sort of like the movie, "Armageddon." "The ...

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