The infamous "God of Chaos" asteroid could be tipped onto a collision course with Earth, scientists have warned. The asteroid ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

There are a slew of ways that life on Earth could come to an end, but a giant asteroid smashing into the planet, wiping out ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be ...

Ecologist and National Geographic Explorer Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz is investigating the role of microbes in ecosystems and the earth’s processes. Cadillo-Quiroz and team are exploring two rivers in the ...