As the years pass, humanity is sending more junk into space than ever before and scientists are on edge because […] ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace ...

NASA is gearing up to slowly lower the orbit of the International Space Station until it burns through the Earth's atmosphere and drops into the ocean, starting around 2030. The agency says the ...

AN asteroid the size of a football pitch cannot be ignored, an expert has warned after its chances of hitting Earth increased ...

Additionally, even the best telescopes on Earth still have to peer through Earth's atmosphere to look at objects in space. The air above a telescope's lens bends and distorts beams of light ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

A scientist who has written a book on how to defend our planet from an asteroid collision, has spoken out following news of ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...