Was was the worst asteroid ever? Fifty thousand years ago, a space rock slammed into Earth and made a big boom.

It is popularly believed that around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal 700-meter asteroid, 2025 SC79, lurking dangerously close to the Sun. This 'twilight killer' belongs to the Atiras class, making it nearly invisible and capable of ...

They survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but something else sealed their fate just a few hundred thousand ...

Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

Fans of the Netflix Korean sci-fi film The Great Flood will also enjoy disaster movies like Michael Bay's Armageddon and ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...