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The DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) determined that new planetary spacecraft technologies have the capacity to deflect Earth-bound asteroids.

Earth had more than 100 close encounters with big asteroids in 2022. What are the odds of an impact in the near future?

Last year Earth had more than 100 close encounters with large asteroids. What are the odds of a direct hit in the near future?

Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our Solar System.

From "city killers" to "truck sized," asteroids come in a lot of sizes. But how often do the dangerous ones come close to our planet?

Last year Earth had more than 100 close encounters with large asteroids. What are the odds of a direct hit in the near future?

Barely a week goes by without headlines about a giant asteroid coming past Earth. Here’s what really makes an asteroid pass notable – it’s not just size.

Named 2023 FM, the space rock is due to whizz by at about 35,000 mph (56,000 km/h), coming within 1.8 million miles of our planet at 14:09 BST (09:09 EDT) today.

It seems today if you want to make your name famous you have two choices – star in “leaked” home pornography tapes, or discover something that has so far eluded the capacity to be measured, find a way to measure it, develop a way to rank the measurements or place them into categories, and attach your name to the resulting scale. For example, the “Frater Scale” could be a ranking of items on a list - a better name for a "top 10 list" - where item 1 ranks as first on the Frater...