Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Scientists comment on asteroid 2024 YR4 which may hit Earth in 2032. Prof Martin Ward, Emeritus Temple Chevallier Professor of Astronomy, Durham University, said: ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

This image provided by NASA shows a view from orbit looking obliquely across the surface of the moon, where an ancient asteroid strike ... the Perseverance rover, background left.

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly With no Moon in the evening sky, it’s time for us to track down fainter targets. Let’s start with asteroid 15 ... so-slowly against the background stars there.

But it seems that, no matter which party has control, planetary defense — even if it lingers deep in the background, behind many other issues — gets its due. Perhaps that’s because the benefits of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there’s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit. Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That's good news for scientists and NASA ...

Delve in and read on to know the details! Billions of years ago, an asteroid or comet struck the Moon, creating two huge canyons in just minutes. This discovery has amazed scientists, showing how ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 mile in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting ...

A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an asteroid moving at more than a kilometre a second, releasing energy when it struck equivalent to 130 times that of all the ...