Spanning around 410 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at around 30,200 miles per hour.

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

Earth is facing two major natural threats: one from deep space and one from beneath our feet. In this playlist, we look at ...

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

Asteroid 2026 HW2 which is about 370 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on 29 May. This asteroid is approaching towards Earth ...

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

Scientists gear up to explain significance of event while preventing public panic over unfounded fears of an asteroid strike ...

Don’t look up! But if you do, you might be able to see a bus-sized asteroid passing Earth. The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather ...

A newly discovered asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of roughly 90,000 km (56,000 miles) tomorrow, in what astronomers ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

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 ...

This shimmering satellite image from NASA's Landsat taken on December 21, 2024 shows tendrils of gold surrounding Ghana's ...