The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision course with the moon.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

There's a 4.3% chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the lunar surface and creating a collision so spectacular it will be like fireworks in the sky.

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

In Professor K.T. Ramesh's First Year Seminar, Defending the Planet: How to Stop an Asteroid, four years have passed in only two months. By the end of the semester, it will be 2036 and a simulated ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

California skies feature a six-planet parade on early morning of Aug. 10. Perseid meteor shower peaks Aug. 12–13, but bright moon hampers visibility. New moon on Aug. 22 offers ideal conditions for ...

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