Space is big. Disturbingly big. And most of the time, it goes about its business without us paying much attention. But every ...

The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs was unimaginably powerful. Its impact reshaped the planet in an instant. Debris ...

Now, though, I wish I had covered getting hit by a subatomic asteroid-mass black hole moving at a million kilometers per hour ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing ...

NASA's DART mission, which tested a planetary defense strategy, successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The mission also unexpectedly altered the orbit of Dimorphos's larger ...

It’s the stuff of movies: an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and we have to do something to stop it—or die. Disturbingly this scenario is also the stuff of the actual universe.

In April 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass Earth at a distance that sounds almost unreal on paper. About 20,000 miles away ...