Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

A fictitious asteroid is headed our way, and a group of real experts is currently doing their best to deal with the grim situation. The week-long tabletop exercise, now in its third day, aims to find ...

NASA conducted a new tabletop simulation of discovering a large asteroid headed for Earth. Experts feared Congress wouldn't fund a mission to an asteroid with a 72% chance of impacting Earth. This ...

A new asteroid impact simulator from creative coder Neal Agarwal is as entertaining as it is terrifying. Asteroid Launcher does what it says on the tin and lets you launch a space rock at Earth to see ...

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A comet spanning roughly 2,000 feet landing in the heart of St. Louis could cause a crater nearly 4 miles wide and an earthquake felt as far as 116 miles away, according to an ...