At around 5 p.m. Eastern on Friday, a massive asteroid named 1998 QE2 will zoom by Earth at a relatively close distance. And as exciting as that may be for space nerds, this thing had better keep it's ...

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space ...

A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear devices at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the ...