An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of hitting Earth. Since then models have been refined and while it no longer has a ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

With a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, an asteroid named YR4’s potential collision course is being monitored by NASA.