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

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

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Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

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 ...

In relation to our moon, it is 300,000 times smaller. It was discovered on Aug. 7 during routine monitoring by scientists using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS.

This impact occurred around 3.3 billion years ago, during the solar system’s early years, when asteroid collisions were far more frequent. This meteorite, designated as S2, is roughly 200 ...

The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken basin. Thanks to new research, scientists have dated the basin to the period between 4.32 and 4.33 billion years ago.

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans ... life found a way to thrive. "We think of impact events as being disastrous for life," Nadja Drabon ...

Like asteroid, comets can also threaten Earth, though the likelihood of a significant impact is relatively low. Unlike rocky and metallic asteroids, comets are composed of ice, dust, and rocky ...

This asteroid is due to zoom past the Earth on October 28, passing us at a distance of about 148,000 miles, which is closer to our planet than the moon. This may sound like an immense distance ...

The average distance from the surface of the planet to its satellite is 239,000 miles although the exact length varies at different points in the moon's orbit. When an asteroid is larger than ...