A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

An asteroid named 2024 BX1, which was the size of two ducks, hit Germany earlier in January 2024. Due to its small size, the impact was harmless and caused no damage or casualties. Thankfully ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... The researchers from the University of Cologne in Germany analyzed samples of this rock layer—known to include traces of platinum-group metals that ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

The massive asteroid that brought about the end of the reign of the dinosaurs when it crashed into Earth 66m years ago was not a one-off, researchers say. Detailed scans of an underwater crater off ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just ... and burned up harmlessly over Berlin, Germany in January. The other, 2024 RW1, exploded over the Philippines on Sept.