The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth, according to the European Space Agency.

Catch the live stream of asteroid 2026 JH2's close pass by Earth on May 18. Here's when to tune in to see it. (AP Photo) ...

See asteroid Dimorphos, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

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 ...

The giant asteroid Apophis will make a historically close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029. Scientists have ruled out any risk of Apophis hitting Earth for at least the next century. The 2029 flyby ...

NASA says the “God of Chaos” asteroid Apophis will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029, but poses no impact risk.

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...

A new study reveals a previously unknown meteorite impact that took place in northeastern Brazil some 6.3 million years ago. An international team of scientists found a 900-kilometer-long "strewn ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

New data from NASA’s DART mission confirms a spacecraft impact successfully altered an asteroid’s path, demonstrating that a small nudge delivered years in advance could help protect Earth from a ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table. Discovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 ...