A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas ...

The asteroid 4660 Nereus is technically considered “potentially hazardous” due to its size and proximity to Earth, but those characteristics also make it one of the best potential targets for ...

An asteroid the size of a house is approaching Earth today followed by two other smaller ... Meanwhile, a bus-sized asteroid ...

If you want to do it the easy way, you can see a livestream of the asteroid today from the comfort of your home via the Virtual Telescope Project. Asteroids are, by definition, irregular pieces of ...

Avi Loeb shares the story of how a Tesla Roadster had some astronomers convinced for a time that they had discovered a new ...

A massive asteroid, Asteroid 2025 BS4, will safely pass Earth on January 28, traveling at 35,000 miles per hour. Despite its close proximity, twice the distance to the Moon, it poses no threat of ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a ... objects from its observational database. USA TODAY reached out Friday afternoon to the Minor ...

Unlike a majority of the meteor showers we see on Earth, the Geminids are the product of an asteroid, not a comet. The reliable shower produces bright meteors associated with the asteroid Phaethon ...

Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks of life, in soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe brought back from the asteroid Ryugu, according to sources.