Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

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 ...

If it were to hit Earth, it would cause wholesale destruction ... Most are small, only 10 metres across, but the largest are ...

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.

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

And while most wouldn’t inflict widespread damage should they hit ... Earth today could collide with the planet,” UK astronomer Finn Burridge told the Daily Mail. The largest asteroid of ...

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

Researchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites that plummet through the Earth's atmosphere ... one of the largest objects in the solar system's asteroid belt, while the origin ...

The biggest of them all, asteroid 2002 NV16 ... it would rank among some of the most dangerous asteroids that have ever hit Earth. In 1908, during the 'Tunguska Event', an asteroid 30ft smaller ...