The asteroid impact in Mexico left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system.

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

T he asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would ...

Our space wizard scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!

Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth. NASA said in a 2021 paper from ...

An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...