Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

The asteroid impact in Mexico left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system.

The asteroid was 20 times larger than the one that collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico, and ...

T he asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...

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

A colossal asteroid impact on the Jupiter moon Ganymede not only reshaped its physical landscape but may have also altered ...

Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth. NASA said in a 2021 paper from ...