Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...
Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...
There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched ...
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
NASA's DART mission deliberately crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in 2022 as scientists test whether space objects can be ...
Getting hit twice. Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs -- just on a much, much larger scale. The asteroid that hit Chicxulub, Mexico, is still credited with ...
leading scientists to believe another asteroid hit Earth around the same time as Chicxulub. This new study suggests that the Nadir asteroid, although smaller, generated significant seismic ...
What happens when humanity flies a probe into an asteroid? Two years after such an impact, the "Hera" mission is supposed to ...
"An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous ...