( NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth in 2029, but only if a very unlikely series of events plays out.

Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. What happens if a ...

Asteroid "God of Chaos" (Apophis) will pass within 32,000 km of Earth on April 13, 2029. All you need to know about God of ...

Can asteroid 99942 Apophis hit the Earth? Scientists so far have ... ALSO READ: NASA discovers Earth's hidden electric field that creates ‘polar wind’ Despite the chances of the asteroid ...

Today, on September 8, Earth will experience a close flyby from a 100-foot asteroid named 2024 RF2, which is roughly the size of an airplane. This asteroid will pass at a safe distance of about ...

American space agency NASA has confirmed that early on Wednesday afternoon, over Luzon Island in the Philippines, a minor asteroid, about the size of a meter, broke apart in Earth's atmosphere.

It hit at an expected speed of 17.6 kilometres per second, or 63,360 kilometres per hour, before creating a “spectacular fireball” that lit up the sky. A small asteroid entered Earth's ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual “inhabitant” of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; unlike its rather ...

The estimated 3-foot-wide asteroid named 2024 RW1 was first observed by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona in Tucson about 8 hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere. Astronomers ...

(NewsNation) — A small asteroid that was on a path to collide with Earth burned up after entering the atmosphere near the Philippines on Wednesday. The European Space Agency reported the three-foot ...