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The European Space Agency (ESA) is working on a new mission called Near-Earth Object Mission in the Infrared, or NEOMIR, ...

NASA testing next-gen space telescope that could help astronomers detect city-killing asteroids - Astronomers have found ...

There have been recent near misses – an explosion over Russia, a mysterious crater in Nicaragua. But what would we do in the event of an actual meteor strike? Tom Lamont finds out ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

In a recent interview, NASA’s Acting Planetary Defense Officer Dr Kelly Fast told The Times that space agencies have no current way to stop an asteroid should it pose an imminent threat to Earth. Her ...

There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a celestial ...

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...