Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

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

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

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

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

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city hit Earth. The impact of this asteroid brought about a global ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...