Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Scientists have issued a chilling warning regarding the city-killier asteroid, 2024 YR4, currently racing toward the moon, ...

Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

A pair of jaws found in phosphate reveal the existence of a new duck-billed dinosaur, Taleta taleta, that thrived just before ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. “The Holocene age ...

Scientists say 3I/Atlas came closest to Mars in October. Its path this month put it in the path of the warm rays of our sun, where a tail became more visible. The 3.5-mile solar object is traveling at ...