Would we suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs? What if this football-field-sized space rock didn’t make that turn? What if ...

The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

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For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...

An asteroid is expected to eventually hit Earth, highlighting the importance of preparing for such an event. This video ...

It is popularly believed that around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs ...

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 after scientists identified a potential lunar impact path in 2032. While it ...

They survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but something else sealed their fate just a few hundred thousand ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...