Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

Simply put, pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It figures into numerous formulas used in physics, astronomy, engineering and other ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...