But, before we all start panicking about the end of the world, let me reassure you that astronomers say there's no danger ...

While there is no evidence that it will hit the Earth, a recently discovered asteroid will soon pass within 56,000 miles of ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...

The Moon has always been full of mysteries and now, new discoveries are changing everything we know about it. From giant asteroids passing dangerously close to hidden “second moons” orbiting Earth, ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

The Pacific Ocean is a giant climate cauldron, with a powerful heat engine that affects storms, fisheries and rainfall patterns half a world away, and scientists are watching closely to see if it’s ...

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about 62 feet wide will zoom near Earth on Monday, though it is not expected to ...

As of April 13, an infamous giant asteroid known as Apophis is now three years away from becoming the first space rock of its size to come near Earth in recorded human history. Roughly the size of ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a ...