The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

NASA is tracking a near-Earth asteroid called 2026 BJ8 that is moving through space at around 50,000 kmph and is roughly the size of an airplane. Although its speed and relatively close approach to ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history", which will take place in 2032, with a little luck.

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution's catastrophe response speed.