<p></p> <p>In an alternate reality playing out at this year’s international <a href="https://iaaspace.org/event/7th-iaa-planetary-defense-conference-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Planetary Defense Conference</a>, a fictional asteroid crashes over Europe, ‘destroying’ a region about 100 km wide near
<p>The following are statements from the associate administrators of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Science Mission Directorate and Space Technology Mission Directorate on the administration’s budget request
<p>A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field will cruise through Earth’s neighborhood this weekend (March 9th), just days after another space rock made an even closer approach
<p>A space rock a few metres across exploded in Earth’s atmosphere above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia today at about 03:15 GMT. The numerous injuries and significant damage remind us
<p>NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST / 7 p.m. UTC) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small
<p>On February 15 near-earth Asteroid 2012 DA14 will come so close to Earth that it will pass inside the orbits of the geostationary satellites. The asteroid, which is about 45-50
<p>A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards our planet and the last-ditch attempt to avert a disaster – an untested mission to deflect it – fails. This
<p style="text-align:center" class="small"><br /> ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory captured asteroid Apophis in its field of view during the approach to Earth on 5/6 January 2013. This image shows the asteroid in
<p>This week, NASA’s Goldstone radar is tracking a large asteroid as it passes by Earth, and obtaining unusually clear images of the tumbling space rock.</p> <p>“There is no danger of a
<p>Surprisingly, most amateur astronomers have never seen as asteroid. But this week <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas" target="_blank">Asteroid 2 Pallas</a>, the second one discovered, and the second biggest, will make a very close