Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...
When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.
Four enormous asteroids, including one with the potential to wipe out an entire city off the map, are making a close flyby of ...
Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.
When your spacecraft is way out there racing along millions of miles from Earth and checking an asteroid for rich metals, one ...