Alert Bruce Willis: Two Asteroids Pass Close to Earth

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's 2012 XE54 and 4179 Toutatis! Two asteroids will be buzzing past our planet on Tuesday, giving astronomers...

Can James Cameron — or Anyone — Really Mine Asteroids?

Time was, incredibly rich guys bought sports teams. It was fun, it was affordable (by incredibly rich guy standards, at least) and it kept them off the streets...

How Should We Deal With Future Near-Earth Asteroids? In the Words of NASA: ‘Pray’

NASA chief Charles Bolden did not have many reassuring words for the U.S. House of Representative Science Committee when he spoke recently about his agency's...

Watch: How to Save the Earth from Killer Asteroids by Using a Paintball Gun

What's the best way to knock a killer asteroid off a collision course with the Earth? Ding-ding if you said "paintball gun."

Destroying Asteroids with Your Eyes Is as Close to Being Superman as It Gets

Plenty of video games try to make you feel like a superhero, but Tobii's eye-controlled version of Asteroids pulls it off in ways that joysticks and buttons...

Astronomy: Asteroids: They Could Become Cabins in the Sky

Asteroids are familiar ground for many fictional characters, including Antoine de Saint-Exupery's charming "Little Prince," who lives on asteroid B-612 and...

The Committee to Save the Planet: Who Watches the Asteroids?

A group of astronomers have appointed themselves planetary defenders, watching the skies and tracking potentially catastrophic asteroids

How Insect-Inspired Legs Could Help Robots Walk on Asteroids

While a James Cameron-backed asteroid mining company might have an abundance of money and imagination, the actual technology to mine asteroids doesn't exist.....

Did Asteroids Help Incubate the First Earthly Life?

Meteorites don't always announce their arrival, but the one bearing down on Canada on Jan. 18, 2000 was not so shy. Plunging toward the ground in a roaring...

Blowing Up the Planet With Asteroids

Thanks to Purdue University, you can now blow up the Earth from your desk. You can pick the spots you want to destroy, you can determine how big the disaster...