The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches ...

Four large ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids headed towards Earth – but it should be fine - Largest of the asteroids is about ...

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

This includes two aeroplane-sized space rocks which were only spotted earlier this month. The biggest of them all, asteroid ...

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 NV16, the cosmic ...

Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they make safe ...

While a large asteroid could encounter Earth at any time, impacts were much more common in the so-called Archean Eon. Between ...