A bus-sized asteroid is due to zip past our planet today, skimming closer to us than our own moon.The asteroid, named 2024 ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2019 JN2 will safely fly past Earth on November 30, 2024. Despite its proximity of 3.59 ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

What if the largest asteroid hit Earth? The catastrophic impact would obliterate life as we know it. Get ready for the most ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

NASA has issued a warning about an asteroid, 2019 JN2, passing close to Earth today. The space rock, about the size of an ...

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

Discovery published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science highlights challenge of contamination in space exploration ...

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new ...

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

The geological layer marks the point when the non-avian dinosaurs and many other species were killed by a cataclysmic event.