We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

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

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

Enter at <a href=" for your chance to win a Superformance MKIII-R and support a great cause, The Petersen Automotive Museum.A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won't hit the Earth. This ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

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

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

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

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.

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...