Experts have assessed what needs to be done when an asteroid approaches earth, like the one in February, when one slammed into our atmosphere and exploded high over Russia`s Ural region, injuring hundreds.
May 8 2013, 6:26 pm
Read MoreAsteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
May 16 2013, 11:07 am
Read MoreLowa State University engineers are developing ideas and technologies to save the Earth from potentially hazardous asteroids.
March 8 2013, 11:31 am
Read MoreA celestial body 20 metres in diameter will pass dangerously close -- 8,620 km -- to the Earth`s surface in 13 years, an Italian astronomer has said.
April 26 2013, 9:56 am
Read MoreTwo asteroids, one of them bigger in size than the celestial body that burst over Russia last month, will fly by the Earth Saturday, though not as close as to threaten collision.
March 9 2013, 9:30 am
Read MoreAs an asteroid readies for a fly-by of Earth on Friday, two California scientists have proposed a system that could eliminate a threat of this size in an hour.
February 15 2013, 4:18 pm
Read MoreThe 325-metre asteroid 99942 Apophis that will safely fly by the Earth in 2029 and 2036, may strike the planet in 2068, says an article published on the NASA website.
February 26 2013, 9:02 am
Read MoreThe impact of the Manhattan-sized asteroid into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth.
March 28 2013, 2:51 pm
Read MoreSpace experts have expressed the need for more extensive monitoring systems and an Armageddon-style protocol to save our planet from a potentially hazardous asteroid.
December 16 2012, 4:48 pm
Read MoreKeeping alive its fabulous tradition, search giant Google has come up with a cool Doodle on Friday when newly discovered asteroid 2012 DA14, about half the size of a football field, will make a record-setting close approach to Earth.
February 15 2013, 1:57 pm
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