How Close Have Asteroids Come to Earth Without Us Knowing?Smaller asteroids frequently pass Earth closer than the Moon, often undetected until after their close encounters. While large, planet-thre...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.37 PM IST
‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Threat: Could thousands of undetected space rocks hit Earth? Here’s what’s keeping NASA Scientists awake at nightSpace agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART mission demonstrate...
17 Feb, 2026, 03.25 PM IST
What happens if the moon takes a hit? Scientists brace for a possible asteroid collisionNASA Asteroid Alert: Scientists are watching asteroid 2024 YR4 closely after it was first spotted in late 2024. While it’s no longer on a c...
31 Jul, 2025, 02.40 PM IST
Canadians, don’t travel to the US before reading this, new measures could ruin your travel plansCanadians planning US trips in 2025 should prepare for heightened border security. Increased electronic device inspections and stricter enf...
07 May, 2025, 03.57 PM IST
Asteroid 2024 YR4: Should we be worried as impact probability rises to 2.3%, here's what scientists are sayingAsteroid 2024 YR4, discovered on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS survey in Chile, has recently garnered attention due to an increased estim...
07 Feb, 2025, 10.58 PM IST
An airplane-sized asteroid to fly by earth on christmas eve: Here's all about itAn airplane-sized asteroid, 2024 XN1, will safely pass Earth on Christmas Eve at a distance of 4.48 million miles. NASA's Asteroid Watch da...
20 Dec, 2024, 09.10 AM IST
How would you rescue stranded astronauts like Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore? NASA is offering $20,000 for your plan!NASA is inviting global innovators to design a Lunar Rescue System to assist stranded astronauts during its Artemis mission. With a $45,000...
04 Dec, 2024, 10.57 PM IST
Asteroid on collision course with Earth: Here’s asteroid size, impact timing, effect and where to watchA small asteroid, about 70 cm in diameter, is set to enter Earth's atmosphere over northern Siberia tonight. The event, expected around 9:4...
04 Dec, 2024, 01.00 AM IST
Chandrayaan-3 launch delayed by 4 seconds to avoid collisions with debris, reveals ISRO reportISRO's recent report discloses a 4-second launch delay for Chandrayaan-3 to prevent collisions with debris objects and satellites. The Indi...
29 Apr, 2024, 08.11 PM IST
Here's what to watch on Netflix in April 2024 to make your festive moods even betterBlack Sails, Ripley, Killing Eve and many other superb content will be up on Netflix soon and fans can't help getting excited! Here are the...
30 Mar, 2024, 11.11 PM IST
Capsule with NASA's first asteroid sample heads for Utah touchdownNASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is set to return to Earth on Sunday, bringing back the largest soil sample ever collected from an asteroid. Th...
25 Sep, 2023, 11.41 AM IST
'Shooting star' asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere, ESA confirms. Watch videoEuropean Space Agency (ESA) announced a one-meter-asteroid via Twitter on Monday morning.
13 Feb, 2023, 09.58 PM IST
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. Here’s how to watch the launchNASA plans to host a livestream of the launch on its YouTube channel starting at 12:30 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday.
24 Nov, 2021, 10.33 AM IST
What has Japan's Hayabusa2 mission accomplished?Launched on Dec. 3, 2014, the unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down twice on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 300 million kilometres (190...
07 Dec, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
Japan spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears homeThe Hayabusa2 spacecraft left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometers (180 million miles) from Earth, a year ago and is expected t...
27 Nov, 2020, 05.07 PM IST
Asteroids may play key role in spreading life: StudyCalculations showed there may be as many as 10 trillion asteroid-sized objects carrying life, according to Idan Ginsburg, a postdoctoral sc...
10 Jul, 2019, 12.04 PM IST
NASA boosts spacecraft Orion for deeper space mission including MarsOrion's thermal protection system is one of the most critical parts of the spacecraft intended to facilitate human exploration of asteroids.
20 Nov, 2015, 04.21 PM IST