TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Israeli scientists say they are studying how Earth might avoid a collision with an asteroid, as fictionally shown in the 1998 movie Armageddon.
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency said Asteroid 2007 TU24 confirmed astronomers' predictions, making its closest approach to Earth at 3:33 a.m. EST Tuesday.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- An asteroid on a likely collision course with Mars could give scientists a look at what lies beneath the surface of the red planet.
PARIS, July 14 (UPI) -- European Space Agency officials said they plan to mount a mission to smash into a space rock to deflect it and study its structure, Space.com reported.
PASADENA, Calif., July 24 (UPI) -- Astronomers are tracking a mile-wide asteroid that may be on a collision course for Earth. The asteroid, dubbed 2002 NT7, was discovered July 9 and early data a
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 12 (UPI) -- Scientists have identified 39 small asteroids circling between Mars and Jupiter that were part of a single large asteroid that broke up in a collison about 5.8 million years ago.
PASADENA, Calif., April 4 (UPI) --