A small asteroid spotted only hours before it struck the atmosphere has become a touchstone for how fragile, and how powerful ...

A familiar threat, seen through the lens of the future. The Asteroid Strikes Back is a cinematic teaser imagining what might ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

Scientists are decoding fragile meteorites to uncover which small asteroids could become future treasure troves for space ...

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, ...

There are literally thousands of asteroids circling around our planet in the vast solar system of ours, going about their business at various distances from our planet. Only one of them sends shivers ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more likely if the space rock is made of the same chemicals as metal-rich ...

A small asteroid passed incredibly close to Earth, coming within just 270 miles (435 kilometers) of the planet — a distance closer than many satellites that orbit our world. Scientists noticed the ...

Get ready for some news that’s out of this world. An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be on course to make contact with the moon—and such an impact wouldn’t come without consequence, according to an ...