Asteroid 2024 YR4 has around a 1-in-77 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 – but there’s no need to panic.
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Ramses, a European space mission to study the asteroid Apophis, has been approved for perparatory work.
NASA’s enduring NEOWISE mission was just shut down. It was keeping an eye out for potentially dangerous asteroids – but we’re not left defenceless.
The mission provided details about how to deflect an asteroid should one threaten Earth in future.
Five new studies show smashing spacecraft into asteroids could be a viable way to defend Earth from threatening space rocks.
Rubble pile asteroids are like giant space cushions, floating around the Solar System for billions of years. Here’s what that means for planetary defence.
From space to the outback, meteorite-tracking tools are building the knowledge we need to prepare for a future asteroid impact.
DART has forever changed the orbit of a small asteroid – and done so with much greater success than expected.
The first ever planetary defence test is about to take place 11 million kilometres from Earth. All we can do is wait and see.
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