This week, practically visible from anywhere on Earth with the exception of the South Pole, you can watch the Taurid meteors ...

Asteroid Apophis, or "God of Chaos," will pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. This rare encounter offers scientists a ...

The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.

reads a description on the agency's asteroid watch dashboard. The average distance from the surface of the planet to its satellite is 239,000 miles although the exact length varies at different ...

Measuring 1,000-feet-long, the massive asteroid was discovered in 2004. Apophis is predicted to pass within 20,000 miles of ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Now, the time for the test has finally arrived, and here’s everything you need to know to tune in and watch NASA slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. DART, which stands for Double Asteroid ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

And all Lauretta, the mission’s leader, could do was watch, and hope, that his life’s obsession ... whether he wanted to ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), nicknamed the 'Headless Comet,' might be seen on Halloween because only a faint display of its tail ...

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the asteroid was discovered just a few hours before its impact. Several videos ...