Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far Artist’s impr...

  NASA just shut down a planetary defence mission that tracks asteroids. Now what? Artist’s impression of NEOW...

Canada's NEOSSat The surprise explosion of a meteor over Russia on 15th February this year, again served as a reminder of the vuln...

The idea that asteroid collisions with Earth pose any more a direct threat than science fiction films from Hollywood would portray (...

The recent exercise in December 2008 by the US Air Force to assess the ability to cope with a collision with a Near Earth Object again highl...

The question of what action to take when there is the possibility of an asteroid collision with the Earth periodically surfaces from time to...