Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially ...

Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive space ...

we estimated that the primary impacting asteroid had a size of roughly 2.5 — 3.1 miles in diameter and formed a crater some 31 — 40 miles in diameter. Such an impact is really devastating ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with Earth, but that recently dropped to less than 0.0017% in new calculations by NASA making it negligible. “It’s really easy to ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, a scenario that experts postulated could have more explosive potential ...

Tethered by high-strength cables, Analemma tower would hover above various locations, offering its residents unparalleled and ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, thanks to a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. Known as ...

That theory shifted when a giant impact crater, Chicxulub, was found in Mexico. Its discovery pointed to a killer asteroid. But others now argue both disasters played a role—the asteroid ...

Another large asteroid impact, about 35 million years ago, made a huge crater in the area that is now the Chesapeake Bay, near Washington, D.C. More recently, in 1908, an asteroid likely exploded ...