Scientists have figured out the odds of a person dying from an asteroid over a human lifetime. In a strange experiment, they compared it with other scenarios that can kill human beings, such as ...

How do you identify a cosmic pebble passing across the void, three million kilometers distant, and be certain that it’s not another star? For ESA’s Hera mission, which is now far into its cruise ...

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...