Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

NASA has issued an alert that an asteroid, TP17, is scheduled to skirt by Earth today at a distance of 2.8 million miles.

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Space agencies have been busy with three major launch milestones occurring in the space of a week. Meanwhile, the sun is at ...

The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

This event is linked to Halley’s comet, and occurs as another comet, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, remains visible. But a nearly full ...