WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

NASA is closely tracking asteroid Apophis, a massive Near-Earth Object that could cause widespread destruction if it collides ...

Additionally, it may contain organic carbon, potentially contributing to the nutrients needed for life to flourish on Earth. Over the next two years, researchers will examine asteroid rocks and ...

The Sky at Night Will an Asteroid Destroy Earth? Your Images: Venus, Hyades and Pleiades Here are some amazing images posted on the Sky at Night Flickr page. Thanks for sharing!

Even as the asteroid hurtled towards Earth, we were arguing. That was sort of the point: some of the world’s greatest experts and most powerful agencies had been assembled to find out how to ...

NASA revealed that 'Asteroid 99942 Apophis' is a near-Earth object (NEO) which is likely to be about 335 meters across. It is ...

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

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

The Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 6 miles in diameter. That may sound like a pretty big space rock, but relative to Earth it's pretty tiny.

For an asteroid to actually destroy life on Earth, it will have to be bigger than the one that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. The fact that humans are smarter gives them an edge over the ...

UK: On Friday an enormous asteroid is going to fly past Earth in what's being described as a "near miss". The 1000-metre wide object called '2014-YB35' is travelling at 23,000 miles per hour and ...