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

However, a recent hunt for large asteroids within the Taurid Swarm, dubbed the “Doomsday” asteroid swarm, revealed fewer than astronomers expected. “Fortunately, we found that it’s likely ...

How was it that this miscellaneous group of small and vulnerable creatures – including our ancestors – survived doomsday? The ...

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't hide a civilization-killing asteroid. When you purchase through links ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

A new study from Sandia National Laboratories focuses on how X-rays from a nuclear explosion could impact an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The studies show that these X-rays might ...

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place ...

The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking predicted our planet's demise by 2600. Does NASA agree with him?

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn. The team has posted a paper describing their study of the ...