Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. Watch the full ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. What ...

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

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

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

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

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 ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.