2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched ...

NASA has unveiled its strategy to counter potential asteroid threats in its National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there.

Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...

Scientists have revealed images of a second massive asteroid impact called Nadir Crater buried 300 meters under the ocean ...

An asteroid around two-thirds of a mile wide (1.2km) could hit the earth on March 21, 2014 and has been classified as "an event meriting careful monitoring" by astronomers. But they say the ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid collided with the ocean off the East Coast of North America, creating a 25-mile ...

But the scientists couldn’t confirm if it hit before, during, or after the original big, bad asteroid—only that it impacted Earth around the same time some 66 million years ago. “We think it ...