What if the biggest asteroid hit Earth? This video explores the potential consequences of a massive asteroid impact, ...

NASA said the energy released when the meteor broke up was equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT.

For a few seconds on Saturday afternoon, people across the northeastern U.S. heard a loud explosion and felt buildings shake.

An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower, shaped like a peanut and potentially hazardous—sounds scary, right? Take asteroid 2026 JH2. It was first detected on May 10, ...

A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist. NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, coming about 20,000 miles from the planet's surface. That ...

NASA shared new details on the size and path of the meteor on Monday, upgrading the size of the object and revealing how far ...

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

A large asteroid about the size of the Eiffel Tower is expected to come unusually close to Earth in 2029, but there is no risk of impact, scientists said. The asteroid, named Apophis, will pass around ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, ...

This big asteroid was discovered less than a fortnight before its flyby Earth. But any time you see a headline about asteroids flying by the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...