These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

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

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America.

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...

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 ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who first spotted it hours later. Measuring an estimated 3.3 to 9.8 ...

The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...