A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.

Astronomers have identified asteroid 2022 WJ1 as the smallest asteroid ever characterized, measuring just 16 to 27 inches in ...

In an international study led by Western University and Lowell Observatory, scientists describe a pioneering, integrative ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a ... [+] once every 5,000 to 10,000 years event. What is considered rare in astronomy is a ...

scientists used 3D seismic data to measure the impact and were able to reverse engineer the size of the asteroid, its angle of impact, how fast it was going and the impact it had on the seabed and ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...