DARMSTADT, Germany — Call it planetary defense: the race to avoid the fate of our reptilian relatives with a mission to see if humans can divert an asteroid before it smashes into the Earth. On Monday ...

A Spacecraft Is on Its Way to a Harmless Asteroid Slammed by NASA in a Previous Save-The-Earth Test CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a ...

Here’s how it works. Now that sentiment is about to become even more applicable, because after loving Romulus myself, I’m absolutely pumped about a new franchise entry that has been announced.

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 10:52 local time (15:52BST ...

In April 2029, a 20-million ton asteroid once thought to pose a potentially catastrophic collision risk with the Earth will fly by our home. Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos and evil ...

It turns out these insects have been some of the world’s tiniest farmers for 66 million years, thanks in part to the asteroid that struck Earth and set off a chain of events that led to the ...

With that in mind, the Blu-ray releases for Alien: Romulus are now available to pre-order and the cover on its 4K Steelbook is pretty fantastic. At the time of writing you can grab the Alien ...

It’s been almost 25 years since Bruce Willis, playing the fictional character Harry Stamper in the blockbuster movie, Armageddon, saved Earth from an asteroid careering towards the planet.

Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, another mission to map the space rock is about to launch. The data it collects will refine Earth’s planetary defences ...

An asteroid around 140 meters (460 feet) wide—which is a little smaller than Dimorphos but could still take out a major city—hits our home planet around every 20,000 years.

urope's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...

It's well known that the reign of the dinosaurs came to an end when a giant asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago. But a new study suggests that this huge asteroid wasn't alone.