Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

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

The ATLAS survey, a four-telescope system tasked with tracking near-Earth objects, first observed the asteroid in images ...

Apophis, which is scheduled to fly by Earth on April 13, 2029, is a massive ‘city-killer’ roughly the size of the Empire ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Astronomers have developed a new way to trace the paths of potential “city-killer” comets years before they come close to the Earth. The breakthrough technique, described in a yet-to-be peer-reviewed ...

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

Asteroid mining might sound like something out of science fiction, but experts say it could be the path to out-of-this-world wealth. According to Matt Gialich, founder of space mining company ...