Elon Musk has issued a warning for the public after a giant asteroid made a close approach to our planet. Reacting to ...

The capsule — nearly 3 feet wide (81 centimeters) and 1.6 feet tall (50 centimeters) — will hit the atmosphere at 27,650 ... during two previous missions and Mars meteorites found in Antarctica. The ...

About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...

EARTH could collide with its deadly cosmic neighbour, Apophis, an asteroid 1,100ft (335m) wide, should a rare chain event ...

An asteroid is approaching the Earth which the experts say will come close enough to be caught in our planet’s gravity well, ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

Nasa has warned of a stadium-sized asteroid due to pass by Earth tonight, that is far bigger than any other "near-Earth ...

For the asteroid named for an Egyptian god of chaos to pose a risk to Earth, it would need to be hit by another space rock at just the right angle to redirect the city-killer on a collision course.

Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid set to make a close approach to Earth on Tuesday. The 2024 ON asteroid ...

NASA issued a warning that a giant 720-foot asteroid named 2024 ON was expected to approach Earth on 15 September. However, ...