An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with Earth, according to the United States Geological Survey. Small asteroids ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

A “city-destroying” asteroid is hurtling in the direction of Earth and has now made it to the top of a NASA risk table. The agency’s Planetary Defence Team was set up in order to detect and monitor ...

We interrupt our regular schedule of fish puns and naughty jokes about holes to warn you that a huge chunk of celestial ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The good news, according to NASA, is that for now, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the ...

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A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the rock is potentially even larger than the one believed responsible for ...

"We believe we're finding the story where, together, the water, the organic material, and all of these bioessential elements could have been delivered on asteroids like Bennu in the early solar ...

And she said there was a critical consequence of this - making it harder to spot asteroids. "Spotting potentially hazardous asteroids that might one day impact the Earth is important work ...

Beyond the snow line, water is solid and aggregates readily into nascent planets and asteroids, whereas within the line, water remains gaseous and is harder to capture. [ Related: 10 chaotic space ...

Atari has partnered with watch maker Nubeo to release a limited edition Asteroids Watch that puts imagery from the classic arcade game on your wrist. Instead of a second or minutes hand ...