There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

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

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

The asteroids, named 2018 QE, 2024 TD3, and 2024 TK3, are part of NASA's ongoing efforts to monitor space objects.

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A ...

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".