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

These four rock stars are embarking on a world tour. NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will ...

Armageddon may be a bombastic work of fiction. But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and constantly keeps its eyes on the ...

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by ...

Another alternative to the 1,000 spacecraft mission would mean going full ‘Armageddon,’ as in the 1998 sci-fi action flick, and nuking the asteroid before it smashes into Earth. NASA’s ...

The second option is a scene straight from the blockbuster film Armageddon - and involves going ... the character is sent to space to blow up an Asteroid on course to smash into Earth with a ...

I grew up watching Armageddon and Deep Impact as a nerdy ... life NASA mission compare to some of the movies that portray asteroid collisions? Andrews: It was super surreal, and it felt more ...

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.

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 ...

A new study from Sandia National Laboratories focuses on how X-rays from a nuclear explosion could impact an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The studies show that these X-rays might ...

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 ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most ... that humans proved capable of diverting Armageddon, and without any assistance from ...