Before you panic about our impending doom, there's good news - a scientist from the University of Murcia has come up with an ...

Planet Earth is bidding farewell to a "mini moon," a harmless asteroid named 2024 PT5, which has been trailing Earth for two months and will leave on Monday, drawn away by the sun’s stronger ...

Led by Uisdean Nicholson, a geologist at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, scientists used 3D seismic data to measure the impact and were able to reverse engineer the size of the asteroid ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...

This mind-blowing map shows Earth’s position within the ... where teams war-game asteroid impact scenarios. “In the real world, we haven’t really gotten to this stage where we actually ...

Scientists suspect it may be a boulder that was blasted off the moon during an asteroid impact. FILE - A supermoon with a partial lunar eclipse rises over Lake Michigan in Chicago, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5, measuring about 33 feet (10 metres) in diameter, was discovered in August 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) operated by the University of Hawaii. The ...

NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first spotted the space rock in early August. By the end of September, Earth’s gravity had pulled it into what would become a ...