Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asteroid Simulation An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but ...

Of the thousands of space rocks whizzing through the solar system, there is one that has astronomers more worried than any ...

A nuclear bomb might one day deflect an asteroid and save Earth from a disaster. Here’s how the lab simulation went: Before the asteroid could threaten the peaceful blue planet below, a powerful pulse ...