When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

NASA launched DART atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 back in November of 2021 ... will live-stream the DART test’s final approach. During this time, the spacecraft will slam into the smaller asteroid ...

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

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.

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.

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

Meanwhile, a bus-sized asteroid named 2021 TK11 and 2024 TH3 - roughly the size of a house - will approach Earth from 1.9 million miles and 2.8 million miles away respectively. However ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid stretching 6 miles (10 kilometers ... most spacecraft NASA and others build, they want to live for as long as possible. They have this eight ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...

More detailed observations in 2021 allowed scientists ... Tiny meteoroids constantly bombard asteroid surfaces in a process called space weathering, Ballouz told Live Science in an email.