"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt.

The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

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

A city-sized asteroid is approaching Earth this October, set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 ...

The late afternoon welcomed the closest visitor: asteroid 2024 UY. It came just 184,000 miles from Earth, less than half the ...

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).

Four large “potentially hazardous” asteroids – one the size of a skyscraper – are expected to pass by Earth on Thursday, ...

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

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission is the first to send a spacecraft and two CubeSats to an asteroid in deep space.

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite collisions with Earth have come from ...