On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

Elon Musk has insisted it is essentially a matter of life and death that we find somewhere off Earth to colonize.

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 ... but this news was a real-life Don’t Look Up moment, and ...

Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the ... news was a real-life Don’t Look Up moment, and a stark reminder of the threat that ...

The recently discovered asteroid has a 0% chance of hitting ... pictures of it as quick as they can before it gets too far away,” said Plesko. The asteroid is expected to drop out of sight from ...