A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

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

The largest asteroid of the incoming quartet, 2002 NV16 (pictured), will reach a minimum distance of 2.8 million miles from Earth, which is slightly closer than the other three space rocks will ...

Are nukes really the best defense against an incoming asteroid or comet? Do we really have to worry about giant space rocks or hefty snowballs wiping out civilization? Are astronauts the best way ...

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

But detection is not enough; we have to find a way to defend Earth against an incoming asteroid. Blowing up an asteroid, as depicted in the movie Armageddon, is no use. The asteroid would be ...

An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Hera craft traveling through the solar system. The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. "Farewell, Earth!

Space agencies are testing methods of redirecting incoming asteroids should the need ever arise. In 2022, NASA's DART mission crashed an impactor into a double asteroid system in an attempt to ...