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

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

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

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.

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

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

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A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.

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

they deliver a big punch in one fell swoop. But— presuming you have many years to deal with the threat—in many planetary defense scenarios, using nukes to deflect an asteroid is a more ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. ESA signed a contract worth €63 ...