The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.

NASA has issued a warning about asteroid 2023 KU, a 370-foot-wide space rock traveling at over 64,000 km/h. Expected to ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...