When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

Four enormous asteroids, including one with the potential to wipe out an entire city off the map, are making a close flyby of ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Nevertheless, this is a very close pass by such a big object, and Apophis will be visible ... Some 66 million years ago, an ...

Named for the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis is capable of destroying a city if it were to strike ...

Four large asteroids are passing by Earth today, NASA has said, but despite their huge size they are not expected ... Mr ...

The huge space rocks that are set to pass by Earth later today could cause untold devastation should they ever impact the ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

Huge asteroids or chunks of ancient objects ... called the Barberton Greenstone Belt. The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago was many times the size of Mount Everest.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

It's common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid 66 million years ago. But what if that wasn't the only time in Earth's history that a space rock triggered an ancient apocalypse?

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...