Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

Earlier this year there were briefly fears that the 60-metre-wide (200-foot-wide) asteroid called 2024 YR4, which is big enough to level a city, would strike Earth on December 22, 2032. It was given ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...