A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

Scientists Discover 70% of Meteorites That Hit Earth Come from Same Three Asteroid Families Scientists have uncovered the ...

NASA is closely tracking asteroid Apophis, a massive Near-Earth Object that could cause widespread destruction if it collides ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

The real question, and still an open one, is whether a Taurid swarm could deliver more Tunguska-sized objects than would ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

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

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

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

Only two hours after being detected, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into the Pacific Ocean, seemingly ...