Following on from Halloween's close encounter, another seasonal asteroid will soon be paying us a visit.
A new bill has been approved that will make it possible for companies to mine resources from asteroids.
The recently discovered asteroid due to pass by the Earth today actually looks like a skeletal face.
Scientists have revealed that a high-speed asteroid will streak past our planet at the end of the month.
Amid the numerous doomsday predictions of recent weeks comes the news that we are actually quite safe.
The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs might have also produced intense volcanic activity.
The new mission will attempt a potentially world-saving maneuver by redirecting an asteroid's trajectory.
The space agency remains adament that there are no apocalyptic asteroids due to hit us next month.
A nearby asteroid loaded with a platinum core is thought to be worth an unfathomable amount of money.
NASA is looking in to the possibility of using nuclear weapons to defend Earth against asteroid impacts.
The late Star Trek actor was recently honored with a main-belt asteroid that now bears his name.
Media reports of a close shave with a mile-wide asteroid have thankfully turned out to be exaggerated.
Water-rich asteroids are thought to have brought water to countless other worlds throughout the universe.
Robotic grapples will be used to place a boulder from a large asteroid in to orbit around the moon.
The spacecraft is now set to spend the next 16 months studying the largest object in the asteroid belt.
The asteroid known as 2004 BL86 flew past the Earth this week at a distance of 1.2 million kilometers.
Scientists have discovered indications that liquid water was once present on the asteroid's surface.
Scientists believe that a long winter, not an inferno, was most likely to blame for their extinction.
The ultimate weapons of mass destruction could one day save us from complete annihilation.
A Russian scientist has identified a huge asteroid that crosses the Earth's orbit every three years.