Today, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is casually ...

The second visit of asteroid Apophis in 2036, also on April 13, heralds the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of a new ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

A massive asteroid, spanning more than two miles across, has just made its closest approach to Earth in decades - but its ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock waves, earthquakes and megatsunamis splattered out, plunging the planet ...

That's probably why the near-approach of an asteroid to Earth sounds scary. People tend to recall movies like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact." Not to mention the notorious chunk of rock that hit ...

The next time it will pass this close again will be in 2087. While an asteroid of this size could cause catastrophic damage if it were to collide with Earth, Alinda poses no threat. Instead ...

Here's when the Wolf Moon will peak This Sunday, January 12, the asteroid (887 ... pass less than 15 million kilometers from Earth, with its next close approach to our planet in the year 2200.