Asteroid Apophis will fly past Earth on 13 April 2029. (ESA-Science Office CC BY 4.0 INT) In April 2029, a rare visitor is ...

That’s one way to stop the a-rock-alypse. Chinese scientists have devised an unorthodox solution to stop a potential Doomsday ...

Space agencies around the globe are coordinating missions to visit the asteroid Apophis during a close encounter with Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Odds of asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 fall. What scientists now say about 2024 YR4 Don't worry, astronomers now say a recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news cycle, it's time to catch up on your ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...

For large asteroids that are hundreds of metres wide, methods like the one tested by Nasa’s 2021-22 Dart mission cannot ...

Based on computer simulations and geologic evidence, scientists propose that the deadly event may have caused global ...

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe will also help defend the planet against potentially threatening space rocks ...

Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway ...