Space Chances of asteroid approaching Earth doubling in 2032 NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032. 13/02/2025
Space A newly spotted asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 The potential impact would occur on December 22, 2032. 30/01/2025
Space Falling asteroid lights up sky in Russia's Siberia A small asteroid lit up the sky over Russia’s Siberian republic of Yakutia as it entered Earth's atmosphere. 04/12/2024
Space ESA launches planetary defence mission to return to deflected asteroid Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's planetary defence system. 08/10/2024
Space Scientists’ discovery could help save Earth from killer asteroids The discovery shows how old data and artificial intelligence (AI) might play a crucial role in the future. 01/05/2024
Space 2023 in review: Another landmark year for space exploration From ESA's JUICE mission and NASA's asteroid missions to SpaceX's attempts to launch the world's largest rocket, 2023 was another landmark for space. 28/12/2023
Culture news Clues to the origin of the Earth: Asteroid sample comes to UK museum Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the Natural History Museum hope they can unlock the answer. 29/11/2023
Space ESA is returning to the asteroid nudged off its orbit last year A new ESA mission is heading back to the asteroid nudged off course when it crashed a spacecraft onto its surface last year. 31/10/2023
Space NASA's Psyche asteroid mission: Here's what you need to know NASA's latest deep space mission will analyse a metal-rich asteroid to unlock a greater understanding of how rocky planets like our own were formed. 11/10/2023
Space NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after 7-year journey The data gleaned by the space mission will likely help scientists with any asteroid-deflection efforts in the future. 24/09/2023
Culture news Venice 2023 review: 'L'ordine del tempo' ('The Order of Time') It’s the end of the world as we know it – and I’m rooting for the asteroid. 30/08/2023
Culture news Culture Re-View: When the biggest asteroid in recorded history landed 30 June 1908: A city-destroying meteor lands in Siberia 30/06/2023
Mobility How to spot the rare 'green comet' everyone is talking about Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) hasn’t been viewed by human eyes since the Stone Age. 31/01/2023
Mobility Newly spotted 'planet killer' asteroid could one day threaten Earth Called 2022 AP7, it's over 1 km wide and the largest potentially hazardous asteroid found in the last eight years, say astronomers. 02/11/2022
Mobility In pictures: The Earth and Moon captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft The spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to capture the diversity and mystery of asteroids. 31/10/2022
Mobility NASA’s asteroid crash mission has created a 10,000 km debris trail The DART mission was testing whether a spacecraft could be used to nudge an asteroid off course. 05/10/2022
No Comment NASA spacecraft crashes into an asteroid NASA's DART spacecraft crashes into the asteroid Dimorphos in a test to prevent a cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. 27/09/2022
Mobility NASA successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid NASA now hopes the collision will change the trajectory of the asteroid, in a first-of-its-kind planetary defence test. 27/09/2022
Mobility A NASA spacecraft is about to deliberately crash into an asteroid NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft is set to hit its target on Monday, in a test run for what to do if one ever threatened Earth. 26/09/2022
Tech News What you need to know about NASA’s dry run to save us from armageddon NASA is launching a spacecraft the size of a golf cart to crash into an asteroid, which could tell us what to do if one ever did hit Earth. 23/11/2021