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 ...

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 ...

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

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 ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

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