The biggest one of all, however, was so hugely devastating to life on Earth that it’s been nicknamed the “Great Dying”. If ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

The Taurid meteors will appear to originate from the constellation of Taurus, hence their name, but they will be visible from anywhere in the night sky. Taurus will rise in the eastern sky around ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

Factorio: Space Age is a masterful expansion which repeatedly reinvents Factorio with each leg of its interplanetary journey.

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...