From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

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

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using an advanced tracking system to monitor the orbit of 2024 RV50. According to ...

A colossal asteroid is set to approach the Earth's atmosphere today and NASA has described it as "potentially hazardous." The ...

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

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will come close to Earth, potentially triggering tremors and landslides on its surface.

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

A city-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth this October and it is set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 Ganymed, it is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids with a ...

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.

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA ... s already one mission heading off to rendezvous with ...

so the researchers based their models on a similar two-lobed asteroid, Itokawa, which has been studied in greater detail. The researchers then simulated each model's movement toward Earth ...