The Earth revolves in a cosmic system which is surrounded by billions of asteroids often referred to as ‘fossils’ of our ...

Scientists from the China National Space Administration outlined a plan to directly change an asteroid’s trajectory relative ...

On Aug. 5, 2026, an abandoned piece of space junk is predicted to crash into the moon near a spot called Einstein Crater.

The spacecraft will strike its target at around 9 kilometres per second, making it one of the fastest asteroid impact missions ever attempted. The mission, led by the China Nation ...

China is set to launch a bold plan, aiming to protect the Earth from potentially disastrous space rocks. The mission includes ...

Artistic depiction of a potential asteroid impact. Sometime before the end of the decade, a Chinese spacecraft could race toward a small asteroid at roughly nine kilometres per second (about 20,000 ...

Chicxulub asteroid type identified: a new Science Advances paper concludes the dinosaur-killing impactor was a CO chondrite — ...

According to the researchers, China’s planned mission goes beyond NASA’s DART demonstration by attempting a more realistic ...

Scientists have several theories for how humanity could end, from asteroid impacts and AI to the dying sun and the universe’s ...

A new study examines buried nuclear detonations to deflect dangerous asteroids, using craters to transfer energy and alter their trajectories over time and space. The research explores a scenario in ...

Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have ...