This “house-sized asteroid” is going to come within proximity of Earth on April 9. Named Asteroid 2026 GD, it is said to come ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of ...

The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach.

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

Scientists discover that an ancient asteroid struck the North Sea millions of years ago, generating a massive tsunami wave ...

An asteroid, bigger than the Eiffel Tower, and named after the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass closer to Earth than our ...

The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, ...

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope ...

Astronomers have found that asteroid Bennu is flickering and "winking" at them. The reason is an internal structure that we ...