The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

The Orionid meteor shower will peak this week as Earth busts through a stream of meteoroids left in the inner solar system by ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

Another eight per cent of the Earth meteorites can be traced to the Flora and Nysa asteroid families in the main asteroid belt, the research found. And about six per cent of the meteorites can be ...

"An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous ...

Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in ...

The team found that 70 percent of all the meteors that fall to Earth come from three families of asteroids, known as Karin, Koronis, and Massalia. These smaller meteorite families were likely created ...

“It clearly covered a lot of distance in a short amount of time. So definitely a broken chunk of an asteroid that randomly hit the Earth’s atmosphere.” Some asteroids travel at speeds of ...

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, wiping out an estimated 75% of all animal species, including ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

While a major asteroid strike seems unlikely for the foreseeable future, NASA scientists believe thousands of large, undiscovered asteroids could still be hiding in our solar system. Some of these ...