While you sit calmly in your home, a mammoth 1.8 km-wide asteroid will zoom past Earth in the evening today, on May 27. It is believed to be the biggest flyby of this year and will be streamed ...

The year 2052 is looking a little brighter thanks to new data that has ruled out an impact from what the European Space ...

The agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, also known as DART, took an image of the bright star Vega on May 27, NASA said in ... 25 light-years away from Earth, is one of the brightest ...

Impact in 2052 ruled out as the European Space Agency (ESA) counts down to Asteroid Day Just in time for worldwide Asteroid ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the world's first full-scale planetary defense test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth ... that it may deform its target far ...

The asteroid should stay about 3.3million miles away from Earth. That may sound pretty far away but in the grand scheme of space this isn't a large distance at all. That's why Nasa has still ...

Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid smashed into the Earth, marking the beginning ... "Dinosaurs in some places may have been stressed by gigantic volcanic eruptions in what is now ...

Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid, making it perfect for study by a space mission. It’s small, less than 900 meters wide, and what’s called a C-type asteroid: High in carbon content and extremely ...

New research suggests that fire from the sky in the form of a small asteroid annihilated a city near the Dead Sea 3,600 years ...

AN asteroid is set to come closer to Earth than the Moon on June 28 ... the Moon is around 238,900 miles away from us on average. That may sound pretty far away but in the grand scheme of space ...

Looking at the planet, researchers have discovered hundreds of craters that likely resulted from the impacts of a binary system, where one asteroid orbits another, like the moon orbits Earth.