When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

Four enormous asteroids, including one with the potential to wipe out an entire city off the map, are making a close flyby of ...

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Mr Burridge added that an asteroid that is about 200m could be "very bad news" if it hit a populated area. However, if it ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

They appear to have been formed by 10 or more related space rocks including the comet 2P/Encke. One hypothesis is that Comet ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The largest meteor impact in living memory is the "super bolide" asteroid that exploded over Russia in 2013. There is a very small chance that Bennu, a similarly sized asteroid, could hit Earth ...

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.

The return of the OSIRIS-REx capsule was the largest geophysical observation ... APEX as it is prepared for a 2029 arrival to the asteroid Apophis. More information: Elizabeth A.

obviously—I’m a big massive geek. But it struck me how the science in the mission was relatively straightforward to just allow them to do something relatively simple, as in punch an asteroid.