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

A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early ...

NASA ALERT! Huge Asteroid To COLLIDE With Earth? Impact Could Equal Hundreds Of Nuclear Bombs Scientists said that the size ...

Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the asteroid was discovered just a few hours before its impact. Several videos ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...