A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock ...

Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

Returning NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space to Earth has been years in the making. Here’s a look at the mission milestones so far — and what lies ahead.

World Asteroid Day 2025: Watch live views of near-Earth asteroids for free online on June 30 "The Virtual Telescope Project will show it live, online, just at the fly-by time.

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...