On the night of Aug. 19, a massive meteor fireball streaked across the skies of western Japan, its dazzling brilliance ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

A planetary geologist finds that the meteorite, which fell in June, came from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

Scientists are on high alert as asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 4.3% chance of hitting the moon, could potentially cause significant damage to Earth's satellites and surface.

What are the chances of someone dying due to an asteroid strike in their lifetime? Seems like a strange question to ask, but a team of scientists did just that and came up with a surprising answer.

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

The researchers used NASA data to work out that there is a one in 156,000 chance of an individual being killed by an asteroid ...

Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 once posed a threat to Earth. Now, NASA says it could hit the Moon in 2032. Here's how scientists tracked its path — and what's next.