How big of an asteroid does it take to damage cities, states, countries, and the planet? On the fourth-annual World Asteroid Day (Saturday, June 30), we take a look at estimates from NASA, Purdue ...

An asteroid impacted Earth today, but it didn't do any damage. The asteroid in question was known as 2024 RW1. It was first detected early on September 4, 2024, just hours before it slammed into the ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032 Getty Asteroid 2024 YR4, an asteroid discovered in 2024, has a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032 Should the asteroid ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to check out the damage NASA’s DART mission did to an asteroid called Dimorphos. Hera launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on ...

An asteroid struck Earth on Tuesday, Dec. 3, less than 12 hours after astronomers first discovered it. The space rock, reckoned to be about 1.6-4 feet (0.5-1.2 meters), according to EarthSky, was seen ...

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A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock, which was ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

An asteroid that may be as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is tall will fly safely by Earth on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Bigger than 97% of asteroids, for such a large object to come ...