Although no immediate asteroid threats are looming, NASA is taking proactive measures to prepare for worst-case scenarios.

New advanced imagery reveals the existence of a second impact following the event associated with the extinction of the ...

Because the experiment was done here on Earth, rather than in space, the team also had to ensure that the targets were in ...

There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.

ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

The shortage of previous Trojans for Saturn is somewhat odd. There are more than 13,000 known Trojans of Jupiter. It’s no ...

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

Here's what Californians should know about catching this rare marvel as it zooms above the Golden State in October.

2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a ...

KCRA 3 viewers have been sending pictures of a flash in the sky to our newsroom which is a recently discovered comet.