Many people think that if a giant rock from space were ever headed straight for Earth, the asteroid impact would be so significant that there wouldn't be much anyone could do about it. That assumption ...

What would happen if some of the deadliest asteroids in Earth's history struck the planet at the same time? The destruction ...

Marco Fenucci is a mathematician who works on calculating the orbits of observed asteroids. He’s a near-Earth object ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of April 13, an infamous giant asteroid known as Apophis is now three years away from becoming the first space rock of its size ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a ...