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

The US-based space agency NASA has issued a fresh warning about an asteroid approximately the size of the Qutub Minar (238 ft ...

The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for the ...

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

which they say the closest approach of an asteroid of this big within the orbits of Earth’s geostationary satellites. Despite ...

We often envision filling space with vast megastructures people might live on in the future, and mining asteroids to provide the materials for their construction, but what would life as an Asteroid ...

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

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.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

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