When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

An astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is tracking a huge asteroid that could collide with Earth in a few years. Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and ...

In his book “Les Prophéties”, which Nostradamus wrote in 1555, there are some cryptic verses, which followers are now ...

Scientists are meeting this week to figure out how to stop a hypothetical asteroid traveling at 31,000 mph from hitting the Earth. NASA says this is just an exercise and there is no imminent danger of ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...