Every day about 100 tons of comet dust and asteroid fragments collide with the Earth. Most burn up in the atmosphere. However, a kilometer-size or larger asteroid could someday hit our planet, causing ...

BERLIN (dpa) – It is time to stop worrying and learn to love asteroids – or at least learn to love watching for them, say German scientists who have come up with an ingenious plan for spotting ...

June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day,” when “people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids” and what can be done to protect the planet from asteroid and comet impacts, ...

Last week, I wrote about the UA’s OSIRIS-REx space mission to gather samples from an asteroid. One of the OSIRIS-REx’s mission is to teach us earthlings about the mission via Facebook, Twitter and ...

In April 2029, a 20-million ton asteroid once thought to pose a potentially catastrophic collision risk with the Earth will fly by our home. Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos and evil and ...

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...

Space is full of treasures. Literally. If we were able to extract the resources from the rocks in the asteroid belt alone, we could give $100 billion to every person on Earth. What if we started ...

June 30, 2015, marked the first Asteroid Day, which organizers described as a “global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Since the beginning of time, humans have looked up at the stars and dreamed of exploring the universe. This dream is becoming more of a reality with each passing year and as ...