Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

Saturn has finally joined the solar system's other giant planets in possessing a Trojan asteroid, but it may have stolen it.

Four enormous asteroids, including one with the potential to wipe out an entire city off the map, are making a close flyby of ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the ...

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water. It's a low-energy environment without strong currents. Then, all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by ...

Enter at <a href=" for your chance to win a Superformance MKIII-R and support a great cause, The Petersen Automotive Museum.A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won't hit the Earth. This ...

Asteroid number 5376, a five-mile-wide minor planet orbiting the sun every 3.75 years, will now be known as ‘Marutiakella.’ ...

Estimated to be between 120 to 270 meters wide—roughly the size of a 70-story skyscraper—asteroid 2020 WG is considered a medium-sized Near-Earth Object (NEO).

Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid “2019 UO14” when the space rock was “bouncing” ...

Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.