Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Precisely four years from today — on Friday, April 13, 2029 ...

Video Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid is going to swing by Earth in 2032 with a 1-in-100 chance of hitting us.… On Christmas Day, a NASA-operated robot telescope was taking in the ...

NASA is about to recover a cup's worth of rocks and dirt from the mysterious asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA Over the past seven years, a NASA spacecraft has put 4.4 billion miles on the odometer as it ...

When we think of space, usually planets, stars, or black holes steal the spotlight. But asteroids, which also form a crucial part, are as interesting and full of mysteries that are yet to be studied ...

If an asteroid was heading for a deadly impact with Earth, could we nudge it off course safely without making the situation worse? Yes, thanks to a new system for calculating the perfect spot to smack ...