When a massive asteroid whizzes just past Earth in a few years − at a distance 10 times closer than the moon − a space mission will be ready to greet the big rock, and send it on its way.

Water is essential in order for life to exist, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that water came to Earth through chance collisions with asteroids and ...

Apophis will come so close to Earth that it will be visible to the naked eye for around 2 billion people living across most of Europe, Africa and parts of Asia. To arrive at Apophis in February ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

Most of the asteroids we’ve observed orbit in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but a good chunk of them—known as Near Earth Objects or NEOs—have orbits that ...

"Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers ... initially predicted that there was a 1.2% chance of impact with Earth on 22 December 2032. Any asteroid we detect is generally a fragment ...

Where does water, a giver and taker of life on planet Earth, come from? When I was in junior high school, my science teacher taught us about the water cycle—evaporation from oceans and lakes ...

Water did not come to Earth from asteroids – it was already here, a new study by the University of Oxford has suggested. Many scientists believe that life began on Earth following bombardment by ...