NASA tracks the locations and orbits of roughly 28,000 asteroids by scanning the entire night sky every 24 hours. The space agency has estimated the trajectories of all these near-Earth objects beyond ...

Asteroids can devastate the planet in an instant – just ask the dinosaurs. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson previously shared an alarming prediction about when an asteroid may hit Earth in the future. Speaking to Conan O'Brien in 2007, Tyson mentioned the asteroid Apophis ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.

The asteroid, identified as 2024 R011, will fly by at a distance of approximately 7,370,000 kilometres from our planet.

The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...