A meteorite that crash-landed into a Georgia home earlier this summer turns out to be millions of years older than Earth itself, according to researchers at the University of Georgia.

In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...

Scientists see this as a much more favorable alternative to nuclear deflection, which would use a powerful nuclear bomb to ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

Scientists have spotted a small asteroid that may circle Earth as a mini moon before shifting onto a path that could make it a hazard later in the century. NASA has calculated the asteroid’s orbit and ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.