One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable ...

If the bad news is that Kirkwood gaps are due to asteroids hitting inner planets, including Earth ... “pumping” stretching ...

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

Pounding icy objects on Mars could make it survivable for humans, says a new study. Scientist Leszek Czechowski of the Polish ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, flew into view of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in ...

YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...