When the 'God of Chaos' asteroid flies by our planet in five years, Earth's gravity could cause it to experience ...

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

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

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

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

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.

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 European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

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

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...