"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

On February 13, 2023, the sky across France and England was briefly illuminated by a small meteor burning. It was slightly less than 1 meter (3 feet) across, and then known as Sar 2667. It is now ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m.

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, providing the first pristine samples from a carbonaceous asteroid. Grains from ...

A small, dark and rigid space rock that touched down at the Field Museum this month could hold the answers to the origin of life in the universe, researchers say. The rock is just a portion of a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - An asteroid spanning the size of a New York City skyscraper zoomed past Earth on Thursday, thankfully missing our planet by several hundred thousand miles. The asteroid, ...