A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Buried under 700 meters of sediment, the Silverpit crater preserves a 43-million-year-old asteroid impact like few others on ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) asteroid Apophis is set for a close but non-threatening brush with Earth on Friday, April 13 ...

A n asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to ...

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

A recently discovered asteroid roughly the size of a commercial jet will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth on Sept. 3. Here's how you can watch the build-up to the flyby live online, courtesy of ...

This image shows Asteroid 2025 QD8 approaching Earth from a distance of 1,180,000 miles (1,900,000 kilometers) on September 1. The 120-second exposure was captured by ...

2025 QV5 has a roughly circular orbit around the sun, circling our home star every 359.4 days. During this time, it drifts between the orbits of Earth and Venus as it is subtly pulled from side to ...

What’s happened? Well, it hasn’t happened yet. But it’s about to. Asteroid 2025 QD8 is heading our way, but you’ll be pleased to know that it’s not on a collision course with our planet, according to ...

These meteors and asteroids hit Earth. In 2016, a huge fireball lit up the Florida night sky and shocked everyone who saw it. In 2015, a driver in Thailand captured an impressive meteor on a dashboard ...