Four enormous asteroids, including one with the potential to wipe out an entire city off the map, are making a close flyby of ...

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.

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth ... is big enough to wipe a major metropolis off the map (hence the name “city killer) and cause ripple ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

A city-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth this October and it is set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 Ganymed, it is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids with a ...