Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

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

On Wednesday (Sept. 4), astronomers spotted a never-before-seen asteroid, 2024 RW1, around eight hours before it entered ...

In a recent string of tweets on X, SpaceX owner Elon Musk reiterated his warning about the potential dangers of asteroids.

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

The final hurdle for Tsuchinshan-ATLAS to surmount will come on the afternoon of Sept. 27, when it arrives at perihelion — the closest point in its orbit to the sun.

Funding is crucial in this effort to detect dangerous asteroids and predict their paths. In 2023, Nasa allocated US$90 ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

An asteroid impacted Earth earlier today, just a mere few hours after being discovered by astronomers. Thankfully, it didn't ...

(NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth in 2029 ... were to hit our planet, it would likely happen ...

Still, it would take an asteroid with enough mass and velocity to affect Apophis’ current course of movement and it would have to hit Apophis at exactly the right time to set it on a collision course ...