About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The near-earth object first discovered in 2024 has stirred up conversation on social media because of the potential for an ...

Asteroid headed towards Earth might smash into the Moon, scientists say - Nasa expects chances of Earth collision to be ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

A new study suggests the craters were dug out by rocky debris after the lunar surface was struck around 3.8 billion years ago ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

The newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR is being taken seriously by scientists at NASA who say it's got a legit shot at ...

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.