Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

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

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

Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

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

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

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

That small streak of light represented the end of a NASA-led mission suffused with peril. Lauretta and his colleagues had ...

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

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

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...