A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...

Asteroid 2025 XF1 is hurting through the solar system at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the spacy agency.

A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a celestial body roughly the size of a small building, has captured global attention due to its potential to strike Earth in 2032. Although the probability of impact remains low, ...

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

I t’s time to say hello to an old friend again. The first near-Earth asteroid ever discovered by humans, 433 Eros, will have a close fly-by of Earth this weekend, and it should stay visible for a few ...

The moon is pummeled by asteroids nearly every day, creating new craters constantly that can range from a few feet to many miles across. The asteroid impacts, when they’re large enough, create flashes ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically and geographically ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...