NASA's 2019 asteroid simulation imagined a fragment hitting New York in 2027 after an attempt to deflect the space rock broke ...

A fictional scenario at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference imagined an asteroid fragment striking New York City in 2027 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

If an asteroid were heading to earth, you'd know about it years in advance. Scientists met in Maryland this May to run through a simulation of a near-earth asteroid. They tried to deflect it, tried to ...

Ready or not, 2024 YR4 is coming to an orbit near you. Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn ...

Nuking an asteroid to smithereens is such a viable, if completely theoretical, tactic that scientists publishing their findings in The Planetary Science Journal just tested it out. In a computer ...

NASA presented the world's experts with a terrifying asteroid 1000 times stronger than the nuclear bomb that dropped on ...

The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3. The TianWen-2 spacecraft mainly focuses on ...