Caption Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. In the foreground, fragments of ice and rock fly away from the collision and will later ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

YR4 was classified in February at Level 3 on the Torino Scale prompting the UN to activate the Planetary Security Protocol ...

head of the European Space Agency's planetary defence office, says, adding the collision could be "valuable for planetary defense purposes".

Recent research challenges traditional views on planetary-mass objects, suggesting they may form through violent interactions between young star systems rather than standard planetary or stellar ...

Had countless science fiction stories of asteroids discovered on a collision course with Earth ... quipped Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science who studies asteroids, in an ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space ...

Bukele agrees with Trump and takes USA's most dangerous prisoners to hellish prison in El Salvador NASA's Planetary Defense ... Even so, the risk of collision is low, but its impact could cause ...