Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

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

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

Asteroids 2002 NV16 and 2024 TR6 will make their closest approaches ... to spot and so we know for certain that none of the ...

When asteroids collide out in the asteroid belt, the resulting chunks tend to end up on roughly the same orbital path around the Sun: They move at around the same speed, tilted at the same angle ...

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...

Related: 'Planet killer' asteroids are hiding in the sun's glare ... Objects of this size could cause widespread damage were they to collide with our planet. However, having surveyed a wide ...

Resaerchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different ...

While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known ... ejected from the lunar surface millions of years ago after a grand collision. The possibility that this asteroid might be ...