David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

Scientists are exploring a bold new approach to protect Earth from dangerous asteroids: detonating nuclear devices to either deflect or break them apart. A recent study proposes that nuclear ...

In an exciting new venture, HEO Robotics, an Australian startup, is setting its sights on a rare cosmic event—the 2029 close flyby of the asteroid Apophis. With its innovative approach, the company ...

An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis. An Australian company wants to join efforts to study a rare space event, ...

THE END IS NIGH: Just two weeks ago, we compared the state budget’s Enronic collapse to a meteor on a collision course with this island earth. Now, according to UA scientist Joseph N. Spitale and the ...

Space is an exceedingly random place. Everything in the known universe may be governed by some pretty hard laws of physics, but so are BBs in a jar when you shake them up and down. That doesn’t stop ...

Oreo created an asteroid-proof vault in Norway to store cookies and their recipe. The marketing stunt was inspired by the Global Seed Vault, which protects a record of biodiversity. Oreo is following ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As if 2020 hasn’t been crazy enough, an asteroid is projected to come close to Earth on Nov. 2, the day before Election Day. There’s no need to prepare a doomsday bunker though.