When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

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

T he asteroid Apophis, ominously nicknamed the "God of Chaos," has captured the attention of scientists and the public alike ...

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

That is unless it’s just a piece of space trash. The object, which has been given the designation Asteroid 2020 SO, is expected to enter orbit around Earth as it passes with 27,000 miles of our ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...

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

Tiny meteoroids constantly bombard asteroid surfaces in a process called space weathering, Ballouz told Live Science in an email. However, Ballouz added that astronomers have long seen that ...