NASA has been tracking a bus-sized asteroid that is zipping past Earth on Friday at a whopping 45,522 mph. Known as 2026 KC1, ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

A screenshot of animation showing how spacecraft Psyche will approach the asteroid.

One of the greatest works of medieval literature hides within it an accurate representation of an asteroid impact, according ...

A violent impact might have ejected material from deep within the moon's mantle — and future Artemis astronauts might be able to sample it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist.NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, coming about 20,000 miles from the planet's surface.That is ...

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven terrain. Researchers found that the South Pole-Aitken Basin formed from a ...

Still, the skyscraper-sized object will be so close — within 20,000 miles of the surface of the planet, nearer than some satellites — it will be visible to the naked eye during its Friday April 13, ...