Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data ... Storm Nadine Spaghetti Models Show Chances of Hitting Florida 10 Times Scarlett Johansson Shined ...

When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But somehow, many mammals survived, and scientists have some ideas why. Unlike ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX mission is on its way to the asteroid to better understand how the rock may be transformed by its close encounter with our planet. If it were to hit Earth—which it won’t ...

leading scientists to believe another asteroid hit Earth around the same time as Chicxulub. This new study suggests that the Nadir asteroid, although smaller, generated significant seismic ...

And it's not even made up. But the asteroid in question — named 2024 ON — has already zipped past Earth. No, it didn't miss us — it was never going to hit. Since its discovery in July 2024 ...

The asteroid was not on course to hit Earth, but it was a test to see whether space agencies could do it when there is genuine risk. When it arrives in two years, the Hera craft will look at the ...

It's called Apophis. The asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth on Friday the 13th in April of 2029. That chance depends on it being hit by another asteroid or some other object in space at ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose ... revealing that it had a smaller chance of hitting Earth than researchers initially estimated. At present, Apophis is predicted ...