The asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, has been dubbed the "most dangerous in history" — and it will pass closer to Earth than many satellites, visible to ...

A city-block-sized asteroid named Bennu periodically draws attention because of a distant, low-probability encounter with Earth more than a century and a half from now. NASA has tracked the object for ...

NASA. Asteroid Bennu is astonishingly fragile for what you’d normally expect for a huge rock hurling through the solar syst ...

NASA's so-called "doomsday asteroid" Apophis - named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos - is set to pass Earth closer than some satellites.

NASA scientists have discovered the largest newly-formed crater ever found in the solar system. It was created when an ...

Is our planetary defense lousy? The imminent Earth Impactor CERNQ52 crashed near Australia yesterday, and NASA explained why ...

Dinosaurs didn’t see the asteroid coming that ended their 180-million year reign on the Earth, but humans had more luck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An asteroid the size of three football fields will pass near Earth in three years, giving scientists a rare chance to study a ...

NASA has unveiled the discovery of a significant new crater on the Moon, resulting from a recent impact by a comet or ...

Is asteroid Apophis ever going to hit Earth? For a while, people had reason to worry. When astronomers first spotted it back in 2004, their early calculations showed a small, but ...

An asteroid the size of three football fields will pass near Earth in three years, giving scientists a rare chance to study a colossal space rock from close range. Named Apophis — after the ancient ...