"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a ... Some asteroids are composed of rock, some iron, some are even made of precious metals, she said. “Think of a four-way stop, and the only way ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

An asteroid impact happens when the orbits of ... demonstrating some of the unintended consequences of smashing something into a space rock at roughly 14,760 mph. As the science writer Robin ...