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.

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.

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 ...

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.

YR4, an asteroid that currently has a more than 1 percent chance to hit the Earth in 2032, catching the attention of ...