NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample reveals important chemical molecules and minerals, offering new information about the ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

Emergency space missions. Blowing up an asteroid. Mass evacuations. Here’s what the response to an imminent impact could look like.

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

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South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wānaka overnight with a loud sonic boom. The cause was a falling meteorite which became a fireball and raced above Queenstown around ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

Astronomers are on high alert once again, as yet another recently discovered asteroid has been estimated by experts to make a direct impact on Earth by the year 2032. This finding is one of the many ...

Reports of a new asteroid were instead an astronomer mistaking Elon Musk’s orbiting roadster for a space rock. Allison ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...