“Our findings suggest that the risk of being hit by a large asteroid in the Taurid swarm is much lower than we believed, ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors and landslides that totally change the asteroid's surface. When you ...

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 ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject ... including during its close approaches in 2029 and 2036. Measuring approximately 450 metres across, Apophis will pass ...

On Oct. 23, 2024, a Reddit user posted a photo that purportedly showed two Australian men posing after catching a "doomsday fish," also known as an oarfish. The image had amassed more than 102,000 ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. ESA signed a contract worth €63 ...

Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early impact monitoring systems. The object ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...