Sen captured footage from space on Saturday showing the world’s largest impact craters. The satellite video offered a ...

Nasa is looking at several options, like crashing a probe into the asteroid to nudge it off course, but that plan was later ...

When NASA intentionally crashed the DART spacecraft into an asteroid, the goal was simple: test planetary defense. But what ...

Analysis of asteroid Bennu samples suggests life's building blocks formed in frozen outer Solar System, not warm asteroid interiors.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new life.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we could not only witness the event, but also meteor storms like nothing we've ever ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...