Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

Looking up at the night sky often brings peace. Occasionally, space visitors capture public attention. One such visitor is ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that ...

Fossils of mosasaurs and early mammals found in Louisiana reveal how life changed after the asteroid that ended the age of ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.