NASA is quietly bankrolling some of the most ambitious concepts in space exploration, from optical asteroid mining to ...
The asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029 and will be visible without a telescope, revealing unique changes on ...
NASA is tracking asteroid 2026 FV6, a 91-foot airplane-sized space rock set to make a safe close approach to Earth on April ...
Back in 1967, a group of MIT students were handed a wild assignment: come up with a plan to stop a massive asteroid from wiping out the planet. They took it seriously, worked through the maths, the ...
The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table. Discovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...
New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. By Katrina Miller In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a ...
Spread the loveOn April 9, 2026, NASA successfully tracked a house-sized asteroid known as 2026 GD, which made a close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of approximately 156,000 miles. This ...
THERE are things around us in Malaysia that are being named after prominent people - be it a school building, roads, airports ...