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

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 ...

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

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.

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

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

This is the third such telescopically detected object to hit Earth in 2024." Just last month, on September 5, 2024, another such asteroid was spotted just a few hours before it hit Earth.

when asteroid collisions were far more frequent. This meteorite, designated as S2, is roughly 200 times larger than the Chicxulub responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction. When S2 hit Earth ...

The TV anime adaptation for Yukinobu Tatsu’s original manga was likely the biggest new anime of the Fall regardless of all of the stiff competition, and now it’s really showing off why.

according to Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard. The largest of them, dubbed 2002 NV16, is 580ft (177m) across and will reach a minimum distance of 4.5 million km (2.8 million miles) from Earth at ...