KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

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Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

On that fateful day, an asteroid detonated above the remote Siberian wilderness in Russia, unleashing a force equivalent to 185 atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. The blast leveled ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

Jawin is also a co-investigator on the science team of the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to a new asteroid, Apophis.] What are some of the highlights that have been ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...