The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Researchers say the dinosaurs weren’t yet in decline shortly before the extinction event, contradicting previous findings ...

According to recent research ... s orbit if the asteroid strikes the Moon, according to reports citing scientists. However, this could also help scientists observe impact physics and crater ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden ...