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More than half of the near-Earth objects large enough to destroy a city have never been spotted by any telescope on or off the planet. NASA estimates the total population of these objects at roughly ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.

NASA has revealed the results of a fresh probe into a “city killer” asteroid that scientists predicted would crash into the ...

A fast-moving asteroid called 2026 DG7 is set to pass relatively close to Earth. Scientists say it poses no danger, but the event is drawing attention from space agencies worldwide. Why?

Odds of ‘city killer’ asteroid striking Moon in 2032 decrease - The space agency had been predicting a 4.3 per cent chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 making a direct hit ...

NASA's DART mission successfully altered an asteroid's trajectory, a breakthrough in planetary defense. By colliding with Dimorphos, scientists demonstrated the potential to prevent future asteroid ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that the near-Earth asteroid 2021 ER will approach Earth on Friday for a safe yet close flyby. The asteroid is roughly 44 feet wide, which equals the ...

Debris flying immediately after DART collided with Dimorphos. (NASA DART team and LICIACube) In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter ...

What is the most important step that humanity must take to avoid extinction? According to the late physicist Stephen Hawking, the answer lies far beyo.

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