In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

An asteroid spanning a significant 71 metres will pass over Earth on Tuesday (January 30), NASA’s asteroid tracker shows. Asteroid 2007 EG will pass at a distance of over 4.8 million kilometres ...

A mountain-sized asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in a "once in a decade" event. The massive space rock zoomed past Earth earlier this month, but it is not out of view just yet and ...