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

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 ...

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

"You get a whole lot of radiation all at once." The radiation would vaporise the asteroid's outer layer and any material that shoots off would give the space rock an extra shove and destroy any ...

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 ...

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." ...

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...

His win in 2016, after a campaign in which he was often covered as an outrageous novelty who would never really win, landed ...

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 ...