Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Astronomers have identified asteroid 2022 WJ1 as the smallest asteroid ever characterized, measuring just 16 to 27 inches in ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

New geological research suggests that a gigantic asteroid impact over 3 billion years ago, despite creating extreme ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago was many times the size of Mount Everest. Credit: AGU Every single day about 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles fall through Earth's ...

Asteroid mining could become a lucrative business ... set to launch as a rideshare payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-3 lunar lander in late 2025. The company also scored an experimental license ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.

Only two hours after being detected, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into the Pacific Ocean, seemingly ...

However, on the bright side, the object measured just 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and posed very little threat to anything on Earth's surface. This asteroid, designated 2024 UQ, was first ...