Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

A stunning new image of asteroid Ryugu has left viewers unsettled ... Discover what’s creeping everyone out about this haunting photo of the cosmos. Location: London WooGlobe Ref : WGA298702 ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will come close to Earth, potentially triggering tremors and landslides on its surface.

Like Saturn, the new asteroid takes about 30 years to revolve but lies 60 degrees ahead of the planet in its orbit, Wiegert and colleagues report in work submitted September 29 to arXiv.org.

Newly discovered comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is visible in the skies above Oregon, and local photographers have captured the event in dramatic photos ... and an ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial ...

It was then observed afresh from several new sites. In all, data for the asteroid was found over the years 2015 to 2024—enough to confirm that it is indeed a Trojan asteroid of Saturn.

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...