Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Apophis is a "city-killer" space rock - comparable in size to the Empire State Building. If the asteroid were to strike Earth ...

The asteroid, named 2002 NV16 after the year it was discovered, measures about 177 meters or 580 feet across — around the same height as a 50-story skyscraper. The skyscraper-sized rock will ...

The rock layers above the impact contain high levels of phosphorus—a critical nutrient used in biology to manufacture everything from DNA to cell membranes. They estimate that the S2 asteroid ...

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 was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans ... wide, and created rock formations that remain exposed today in South Africa — with telltale signs ...

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 ...

These four rock stars are embarking on a world tour. NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to ...

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 ...

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