The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

Meteors that fall to Earth are also often called “shooting stars” and are a common occurrence, according to NASA. While some ...

I am predisposed to like videos about meteorite craters but this was even more interesting than I anticipated. A nice example ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

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

As we round the corner of 2024, there are plenty of events happening when you should keep your eyes to the sky.

But it also includes a surprising amount of role-playing, where teams war-game asteroid impact scenarios. “In the real world, we haven’t really gotten to this stage where we actually have to ...