A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...

"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.

"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally 'bouncing' between the giant planets when it got snagged by Saturn ...

The impact did not just trigger this enormous tsunami: It heated the atmosphere, boiled off the top layer of the ocean, and ...

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

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