David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...

THE END IS NIGH: Just two weeks ago, we compared the state budget’s Enronic collapse to a meteor on a collision course with this island earth. Now, according to UA scientist Joseph N. Spitale and the ...

Space is an exceedingly random place. Everything in the known universe may be governed by some pretty hard laws of physics, but so are BBs in a jar when you shake them up and down. That doesn’t stop ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As if 2020 hasn’t been crazy enough, an asteroid is projected to come close to Earth on Nov. 2, the day before Election Day. There’s no need to prepare a doomsday bunker though.

Oreo created an asteroid-proof vault in Norway to store cookies and their recipe. The marketing stunt was inspired by the Global Seed Vault, which protects a record of biodiversity. Oreo is following ...