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

LATEST SPACE NEWS: ・Space mystery as 'ticking time bomb' British satellite moved halfway around Earth This altered tumbling ...

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.

Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

The asteroid was likely 450 to 500 meters in size ... These data allow us to image this fully in three dimensions and peel back the layers of sedimentary rock to look at the crater at all levels." ...

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 ...

While a large asteroid could encounter Earth at any time ... The heat from the impact vaporized the top layer of ocean water, leading to torrential storms. And then there was the dust, which ...

Crucially, the post-impact layers showed "significant changes" in ... called the Barberton Greenstone Belt. The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago was many times the size of ...