A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Another city-killer asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth completely undetected, a space agency chief had warned. Luca ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a million asteroids in orbit, but just another out of the 35,000 “near-Earth ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an asteroid set to strike Earth - in a simulation.

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Asteroids have orbits that bring them within 120 million miles of the sun. Most near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids that range in size from around 10 feet to nearly 25 miles across.

A study led by researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), published ... onset of metal core formation processes in asteroids. The isotope 60 Fe, with a half-life of ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

(Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Binzel, who developed the Torino scale for measuring the impact hazards for objects like asteroids ... chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, ...

A study led by researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), published in the journal ... while revealing the early onset of metal core formation processes in asteroids. In this ...