Asteroid 2024 UQ entered Earth’s atmosphere hours after detection. 2024 UQ was too small for major impact, disintegrated off ...

Nasa discovers an asteroid the size of Texas is on a collision course with Earth, so a drilling expert is recruited to train ...

A school-bus-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this Wednesday, November 13, 2024, coming closer than the moon.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...

Scheduled to pass by Earth on April 13, 2029, Apophis will come within just 19,000 miles of our planet—closer than some ...

Of the 10% of meteorites without a known source, 6% come from the moon, Mars or Vesta, the latter one of the largest objects ...

A team of scientists has found evidence of liquid water on Mars from 742 million years ago in a Martian meteorite known as ...

Life on Earth has faced catastrophic events before, but certain extinction-level threats could completely erase humanity.

The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However, there are also ...

In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

Asteroid 2019 VU5, about the size of a half football field, will pass close to Earth today. While no collision is expected, its proximity raises questions about potential threats from space.