Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Meanwhile, to prepare for any future asteroid threats, Nasa's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is developing methods to ...

Nasa's Near-Earth Object Studies Center has been closely observing Asteroid Apophis for nearly two decades. Scientists ...

Because its rotational period keeps decreasing – causing the potentially hazardous asteroid to spin faster – the scientists need to predict which part of the asteroid is visible to the Sun ...

ELON Musk’s web of satellites makes it harder to detect dangerous near-Earth asteroids, scientists have warned. The number of ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set to pass by Earth on November 13th. While scientists assure it ...

NASA is on high alert as a massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis and dubbed the "God ... However, Apophis serves as a ...

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

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

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.