The curious minds at What If explain how being trapped between two asteroid belts could pose an existential threat to Earth.

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near ...

A group of space rocks stays mostly inside the orbit of Earth, making them difficult to pick out in the glare of the sun—and potentially a threat to our planet.

Aamir Zulfiqar Khan ...

Google’s former AI chief, Geoffrey Hinton, says there are two ways in which AI poses an existential threat to humanity. But he misses the biggest existential risk of all.

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While ...

As Pope Leo XIV laid out his priorities this week, he called AI an "existential threat" as ad execs at Cannes discussed how it will affect their world.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032.

'This is a threat to our existence,' Israeli ambassador says of Iran's nuclear program ...