Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.

NASA conducted a new tabletop simulation of discovering a large asteroid headed for Earth. Experts feared Congress wouldn't fund a mission to an asteroid with a 72% chance of impacting Earth. This ...

The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn’t have a space program may be overselling the need for one. It turns out you can probably divert some of the more threatening asteroids ...