This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth ... at nearly 18 million years of fossil evidence. "It's ...

"This 230–510 meters large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 4.2 millions of km, 10.9 times the average lunar ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

A bright light that lit up the sky over parts of Western Australia was most likely from a small meteor not much bigger than a ...

An Apollo-class asteroid, 2011 VG9, is approaching Earth at a staggering speed, set to pass on April 16th. While not classified as 'potentially hazardous' due to its distance, its size and ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped ...

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project.

It is 340 meters (1,100 feet) in diameter - large enough to cause major regional damage if it hit Earth - and has ... ever recorded for an asteroid of this size (40 to 100 meters). The impact risk has ...

These craters formed primarily during the Late Heavy Bombardment period about 4 billion years ago, when the inner Solar ...

In the days ahead, stargazers will have a chance to witness some Lyrid meteors before the shower hits its peak in activity ...

The Lyrids, one of the oldest known meteor ... hits its peak in activity early next week. The Lyrid meteor shower, formed from leftover particles from comet Thatcher, becomes visible to us here on ...