The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

They blasted a meteorite with a plasma beam — and made a baffling discovery. The post Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth appeared first on Futurism.

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

A NASA planetary expert has revealed that humankind has no way to protect against a city-killer asteroid if it were to head ...