Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

The researchers used NASA data to work out that there is a one in 156,000 chance of an individual being killed by an asteroid ...

Humans are not the most rational beings when it comes to fear, especially about things that are interesting and dramatic in ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself.