A massive asteroid will experience earthquake-like tremors when it makes a historic close approach to Earth in 2029, ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid ... as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that exploded over Russia and blew out people's windows ...

A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a close approach while orbiting around the sun. The space rock, known as ...

how fast it was going and the impact it had on the seabed and underlying rock. The asteroid was likely 450 to 500 meters in size, traveling at 20 kilometers per second and hit the Earth at a 20 ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant ... could literally shake up the 1,100-foot-long space rock. Asteroids that pass close to planets frequently show unexpectedly ...

It had a science fiction concept: to crash into an asteroid to see if it could alter the path of a space rock. NASA pulled off the feat in 2022. The impact shortened Dimorphos’ orbital period ...

trip to a space rock. NASA has said it has no intention to try to mine the asteroid but there are now a growing number of companies fighting to be the first to do so. As spaceflight has grown ...

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

But in April 2029, the asteroid will swing right by our planet, and a team of researchers believes that the encounter will cause landslides and quakes on the smaller rock. The team’s findings ...

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

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...