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 ...

The Orionids tend to peak during mid-October every year, according to NASA, with the hours after midnight typically the best viewing times. The meteor shower is expected to peak on Sunday and Monday, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

In the latest season of 'Ancient Apocalypse', controversial author Graham Hancock argues that a huge comet struck Earth ...

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

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