From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

NASA has issued an alert that an asteroid, TP17, is scheduled to skirt by Earth today at a distance of 2.8 million miles.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using an advanced tracking system to monitor the orbit of 2024 RV50. According to ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

A giant 500-foot asteroid is coming toward the Earth at breakneck speed and will make its closest approach on October 28, ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Dante Lauretta sat in the backseat of a helicopter hovering high above a remote patch of Utah desert, waiting for a small, ...

In February 2013, a meteor measuring around 19 meters in diameter and weighing tonnes sped toward Earth at 65,000 kilometres ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

so the researchers based their models on a similar two-lobed asteroid, Itokawa, which has been studied in greater detail. The researchers then simulated each model's movement toward Earth ...