NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

The Hoba meteorite, the largest ever discovered on Earth, has baffled scientists for decades. Despite its massive size, it ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

YR4 is circling Earth and NASA predicts it could strike the planet in 2032. Here's what to know about the asteroid headed toward Earth.

In an extraordinary breakthrough, scientists have discovered a massive underwater crater buried beneath the waters of the ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

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 ...

Our Moon continues to surprise us with amazing features. Scientists recently shared new information about two canyons that ...

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...