Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going on sale and is set to become the most expensive space rock in the world. The 54lb ...

The largest asteroid ever to hit Earth, which slammed into the planet around 2 billion years ago, may have been even more massive than scientists previously thought.

REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...

The mysterious blast site of the Tunguska Event of 1908 is revealed in satellite images obtained by NASA’s Operational Land ...

A NASA asteroid detection system discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, and found it has an over one percent chance of hitting Earth. ... The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path. The risk will likely ...

A big asteroid is coming close to Earth. Be excited, not afraid. To be clear, the asteroid is not going to hit Earth — not in our lifetime nor our children’s lifetimes, anyway.

Other notable impact events include one in 1908, when a 98-foot asteroid exploded over remote Tunguska, Russia, flattening approximately 80 million trees over 830 square miles. In 2013, a 65-foot ...