Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

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

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

The Paris-based European Space Agency says a near 10-foot-wide asteroid passed Earth 265 miles above Antarctica but was not detected until hours after it was gone.

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to have a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Now a group of researchers are debating how best to deal with the object ...