Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a mission to send a spacecraft to intercept the asteroid Apophis, a Near-Earth ...

An 1,100-foot asteroid named Apophis will pass Earth in 2029 closer than our satellites, with gravity potentially shifting ...

Planetary science is in limbo during the government shutdown — things like analyzing asteroids, studying the magnetosphere of Jupiter, or better understanding Mars so that humans might one day visit.

There are literally thousands of asteroids circling around our planet in the vast solar system of ours, going about their business at various distances from our planet. Only one of them sends shivers ...