Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and ...

Some are no bigger than pebbles, while others stretch for miles, silently orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt or zipping ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep ...

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

Using insights from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), researchers have developed a tool that would reveal future ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...