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

Scheduled to pass by Earth on April ... into space. The asteroid’s rotation might also change, causing landslides that could ...

astronomers believe that it will not hit the Earth on its "current trajectory." Experts clarified that on April 13, 2029, ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

Huge asteroids or chunks of ancient objects ... called the Barberton Greenstone Belt. The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago was many times the size of Mount Everest.

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

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.

It's common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid 66 million years ago. But what if that wasn't the only time in Earth's history that a space rock triggered an ancient apocalypse?

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029 ... mission can hit the ground running ...