Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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

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

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically ...

The aerospace agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) audited the Planetary Defense plan and on Tuesday published the ...

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