The spacecraft was 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) from our planet when the image was snapped. The Earth and Moon ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

A mystery object tearing towards Earth at break-neck speed has raised fears that aliens are on their way here.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists have revealed just how much you need to worry about everything from elephant attacks and lightning strikes to ...

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Comparisons have been drawn between the 2024 YR4 and the Apophis asteroid, discovered in 2004, which was briefly estimated to have a 2.7% chance of impacting Earth in 2029.

Whilst a potential asteroid impact with Earth could be devastating, scientists were optimistic about 2024 YR4's potential damage due to its size and the fact that it would likely fall into a ...

The researchers used NASA data to work out that there is a one in 156,000 chance of an individual being killed by an asteroid ...