Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

A new study reveals a second asteroid impact, near the time of the dinosaurs` demise, off the coast of Guinea.

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have unveiled stunning new images of a massive asteroid impact crater hidden beneath ...

New research suggests the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs came from beyond the outer Solar System, confirmed by rare ...

Though the other space rock was much smaller than the asteroid that caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs, it was large ...

While we are fascinated (sometimes alarmed) by space rocks hurtling towards Earth, we often fail to distinguish between asteroids, meteoroids, and meteors. Here's a rundown of their differences.

The terminator sweeps across the Moon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS continues to wow, and Jupiter reaches a stationary point in ...

On Sept. 29, Asteroid 2024 PT5 entered Earth’s gravitational pull. PT5 will orbit in a horseshoe shape, meaning it won’t ...