Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

A colossal asteroid named 2023 WK3 is making a close approach to Earth on November 18, 2024.

For perspective, at its maximum estimated size of 460 meters, 2023 WK3 dwarfs India’s iconic Qutub Minar, which stands at 73 meters tall. The asteroid is over six times taller than this UNESCO World ...

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

The Geminids — the year's best, last and least talked about multicolored meteor shower — has started and could see up to 150 ...

No, it’s obviously the Earth’s famous second moon. Asteroids generally do one of three things when they get a but too close ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...