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

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

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

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

The information gleaned will shape the way we choose to protect Earth in the future from a real killer asteroid. When Ramses ...

NASA’s bold mission to save Earth from a killer asteroid. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please contact us at plus@slate ...

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

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 ...

The risk of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, wiping out large swathes of Earth and the humans on it, are real. But as science journalist Robin George Andrews writes in How to Kill an ...