Asteroids were responsible for extinction events hundreds of millions of years ago on Earth, providing no shortage of ...

The family of the man a Douglas County sheriff's deputy shot and killed outside Main Event in Highlands Ranch while responding to a separate shooting has called for video footage from his shooting to ...

We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close to Earth, and that they've struck Earth before with catastrophic consequences. The recent discovery of asteroid 2024 ...

While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim. New ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impact on asteroid Dimophos resulted in an elliptical ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...